In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:39:55 -0500, Paul in
Houston TX wrote:

Paul in Houston TX wrote:
micky wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:26:07 -0400, in alt.comp.os.windows-10 you wrote:

On 9/27/2016 4:13 PM, micky wrote:
The power connector fit, but when it was plugged in the USB/data
connector had no room. So maybe there is power in the data connector
too. But even when the power connector was out, it still didn't fit.

Clarify please. When you write 'it still didn't fit' were you referring to
connecting the drive's connector to the adapter's connector?

Right. I should have said that it is too wide, and I'm not sure the L
went the right way, and there was not a lot of light, I'm not sure the
copper contacts were in the right place, almost like both the drive
connector and adapter connector were male.

All in all, the little rectangular area (sticking out of the blue part
in those pictures) would not push into the area around the data
connector contacts on the drive, even a little, let alone stay
connected. .

If the 2.5"
drive came out of a notebook, highly likely, it _may_ be fitted with an
adapter that interfaces between the computer and the drive. These adapters
used to be really common but I don't know what is being done with newer
systems. Worth a look anyway.

It came out of a laptop at least. Notebook, I don't know.

I'll go over again in a few days. I don't know if my young friend is
gentle enough to suggest he separate what might be an adapter and what
might be part of the drive!

I don't have 2.5 but let me try this adapter on 3.5.... Hey, it doesn't
fit that either. How can that be? Let me try the other adapter. It's
the same but wait..... It has an additional part!!! A cable! A
female to female cable. Now it works. How come the other didn't have
a cable? .... Oh, because it's the standard cable. I even bought
some spare ones at a hamfest.

Boy do I feel stupid. I'm sorry if I wasted the time of all of you.


They could have included a short little cable like the second kit did,
but not everyone is as dense as I am.

Could it be a SAS drive?
http://www.scsita.org/serial-storage...by-design.html

No, it has the key, the L-shaped part. But I'm glad to know about
Serial Attached SCSI, in case I come across it.

Missed the last few sentences of your post about the cable.

Well, I missed the cable in the second kit. I looked at the second
kit, saw the cable (that didn't come with the first one) and just
wondered about it instead of finding out what it was for.

And of course since the drive in question came out of a laptop, it
didn't have any cable.

Glad you got it working.

Thanks.