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Re: More adapter testing

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Looking at two more adapters. One is mini 32 gb ssd with female IDE hookups, I have already ordered the IDE male x male adapter for it. I am not sure about it yet. I also ordered a IDE to Msata adapter. very small and will fit any caddy. As long as speed isn't bottlednecked this should be a nice option.
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Re: More adapter testing

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I get home in a few more days. I have about 6 more options in the mail headed to the house. Mom told me I had a wifi card come in, I didn't remember ordering one going though ebay it was the 32 GB Msata card, lol. So at least that is there now. Going to have to do a chart and speed test this all on the same type of machine. Since I have three Mk7 CF-M34's I think they will work perfect and drop Windows 7 on them all.
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Re: More adapter testing

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I tried the Msata to IDE adapter in the M34 Mk7 and it won't reconize it. It reconizes the 4gb CF to IDE fine so I know it's not the cable. Going to try it in a couple of different machines. Don't see any master/slave settings for it.
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Re: More adapter testing

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I found the problem with the Msata I THINK. The one I got was originally out of a Dell, well Dell on some of there models the pin out is different. So I am going to order another one, make sure it's a standard intel one this time. I still think this would be a good option for IDE Hard Drive hookup as you screw down the Msata drive and there is nothing to bump loose. Length is less than half a hard drive.
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Re: More adapter testing

#15 Post by Shawn »

do you mean the ide pinout? or the msata?
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Re: More adapter testing

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The adapter should be the standard pin out, the pin out is different on some dell Msata's like for the dell mini 9. I just picked up a ramdom 32 gb sata for testing and it won't work, can't even seen it in bios. Finally got around to reading up on it more and seen a couple of others have ran into the same problem. I just ordered a 80 gb intel Msata for under 50 bucks.
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I'm glad I ask.
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I also have three SD card and two different dual Mini SD card adapters to compact flash with me to try out. I am hoping windows will see the adapter as a compact flash not a SD card and it will allow windows to load. On the IDE to SD card adapter it worked great, but could only load linux on it.
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Just got through testing the Compact Flash to SD card adapter, Bios on the M34 Mk7 sees the drive but windows 7 won't. So it should work for linux because that is what was on the SD card before and it booted to grub menu just fine.
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