Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[MattPhillips]

Hi, I recently had a pc crash and am having to recover my data by removing the Seagate Momentus 5400.2 80gb drive and plugging it into a dock/enclosure. I got the SATA dock today but the drive wont plug in, the pin alignment is different. The seagate site states the hd it is a SATA connection, but now having looked on this forum i'm wondering if this is wrong. I've had two different bits of advice, one being that it is a pata connection and one that it is a IDE connection. Can anyone please, please tell me what is going on with this drive?

[AlanM]

Two things.

1) Post the model number so I can verify.  If it ends with "AS", it's SATA.  If with "A", it's IDE.

2) Alot of people get confused because many laptops have an extra piece that's actually from the laptop that is connected to the interface pinout of the drive.  Make sure there's not an extra piece sticking out.

[HDGURU]

Here's what I would consider... 

http://www.webbdatasystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=4

Now, if you confirm your laptop drive looks like a SATA, make sure you bought a Laptop drive enclosure. You may have got an enclosure for a Desktop SATA drive, which is larger.

hdguru 

Message Edited by HDGURU on 11-27-2009 09:54 PM

[fzabkar]

I believe AlanM may have been thinking about this thread:

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=16335

Here are various product manuals and installation guides:

Momentus 5400.2 SATA Product Manual, Rev. A (see page 18 of document, page 28 of PDF):

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/sata/100367122a.pdf

Momentus 5400.2 Product Manual, Rev. C, PATA (see page 17 of document, page 27 of PDF):

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/ata/momentus_5400_pm.pdf

Momentus 5400.2 Installation Guide, PATA:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/ata/momentus_5400_ig.pdf

Pinout:

http://pinouts.ru/HD/Ata44Internal_pinout.shtml

http://pinouts.ru/HD/AtaInternal_pinout.shtml