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Title: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: ften on October 25, 2006, 06:54:15 pm

I basically want a 50pin female to 50pin female ribbon cable that will fit into a Compact Flash / Micro-Drive slot. Kind of like an IDE cable, but for the CF-I or CF-II standards. I know I can't be the only person who thought to himself "Man I would like easier access to this Compact flash adapter." The first person who finds me a site that I can buy the cable off of I will PayPal or MoneyOrder 20 bucks.
I've searched Google, Allelectronics, Digikey, etc and still nothing. At this point I'm not even sure they make such a thing.  :banghead:

Rules on bounty;
I don't want a Developer Compact Flash Extender (like with a PCB board) as they are generally "bulky", won't work with my project and are ridiculously expensive.
I don't want anything that is like 100 dollars, just a cheap ribbon "IDE like" cable.

Thanks,
FTen

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: 2600 on October 25, 2006, 07:59:07 pm

Curious, What is this for? PC or something else?
 

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: Witchboard on October 25, 2006, 10:27:01 pm

You mean like this (http://store.mycableshop.com/itemdesc~product~44+Pin+Female+Socket+Type+Idc+Connector~ic~ZIDE44%2DF.htm)? <---- link

If so, you can keep the $20.

Oops, you said 50 pin.  These are the cables I used for my compact flash adapters, they are for 2.5" laptop connections.  Maybe the same site will still have what you're looking for.

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: tyroneshu on October 25, 2006, 11:49:00 pm

What does this look like?  Can you use regular 50 pin scsi Cables?

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: ften on October 26, 2006, 12:33:40 am

Well I want the cable to connect directly into a male CF port, so a SCSI cable wouldn't work.
I've actually de-solder a compact flash card and started re-soldering the CF female connector to a standard 80pin  IDE cable, but the leads on the connector are so small and fragile it's a ---smurfette--- to do.  If I can't find a cable I guess I'll just finish solder that, but the cable will wind up being pretty fragile.

I looked over that site Witchboard, doesn't have what I need. Thanks for the link though.

I'm planning on using the cable with my Nintendo DS.

Thank you,
-FTen.

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: werejag on October 26, 2006, 12:35:45 am

i have been looking and the best bet is to get 1 compact flash conector , a ribbon cable and a female compact flash connetor. solder it together. seems simple enough. can you tell us why this weird req . so we can find best solution?

gloop stick the ends to make this less fragile

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: Spaz Monkey on October 26, 2006, 01:23:15 am

http://www.dyneng.com/HDRribn50.html

Title: Re: WTB: Compact Flash ribbon cable. Will pay bounty if anyone can find one.
Post by: ften on October 26, 2006, 01:30:18 am

I was planing on using it with a PCB board I made to do a Compact Flash to Toshiba 1.8" HD conversion. The board itself will use a male CF connector.
Spaz Monkey: I think that link is to a proprietary 50pin cable, I'm looking for something that would directly plug into a male 50pin CF port.

Think this but with out all the extra crap;
http://www.sycard.com/cfext180.html

Worse comes to worse, I'll just make the cable myself.
Thanks
-FTen