On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:19:09 +0800, Christopher Pollard
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 03:15:49 GMT, kony wrote:

It sounds like you'll have to make your own adapter. It'd probably be
easiest to just buy a cheap 3ft. USB cable, cut the end off and solder
on a 5-pin header configured for the reader plug.

Well, that's one option, but personally I would do it differently.

Firstly, I assume the card reader is designed to connect to the mb header which
uually goes to the USB ports? What I would do is figure out which wire is which,
then solder it to one of the rear ones (front ones being more useful to me).
Then, I would block off that port at the back to stop me trying to use it
(probably by putting a piece of plastic in it...).

It would probably be easier to connect it to the front port header, but you
would lose one port. That's lose as in it's now occupied. It's still there but
no longer available.



Reread what I wrote, the part about connecting a PIN HEADER to a new
USB cable, not a socket. A pin header would plug into the card
reader cable's socket, with the other end still being the USB cable
male plug, which plugs into an existing motherboard or case-mounted
USB port, no modifications to the system are needed and it would also
be transferrible to the next motherboard/system.

Not that one solution or the other is wrong, but pulling apart a
perfectly working system to solder onto the back of a motherboard and
void the OEM warranty (if still in effect), is probably beyond the
desires of anyone buying an OEM box in the first place.


Dave