SOYO S (sigma) drive

20 Feb 2005 8:22 PM

Miss Perspicacia Tick

The above came with an old DRAGON board. The board is long since dead, but
the drive (for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a CF/SM reader and
has 2 2.0 ports) was never used as I didn't have a digital camera at the
time (and had no use for the ports). I am hoping that it isn't exclusively
for use with SOYO boards as I'd like to hook it up to my current board (an
Asus SK8V) as the reading of the card from my PictureMate is glacially slow
(2 hours for 30 JPGs).

The instructions helpfully state "the black end attaches to the S drive, the
green to the motherboard". Thing is, the cables supplied have two black
ends.

Has anyone been successful in using the above with an 'alien' board? I don't
give a monkey's about the ports, but I'd love to be able to utilise the CF
reader.

Any assistance gratefully received.

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20 Feb 2005 9:49 PM

kony

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:22:52 -0000, "Miss Perspicacia Tick"
<no***@here.com> wrote:

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>The above came with an old DRAGON board. The board is long since dead, but
>the drive (for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a CF/SM reader and
>has 2 2.0 ports) was never used as I didn't have a digital camera at the
>time (and had no use for the ports). I am hoping that it isn't exclusively
>for use with SOYO boards as I'd like to hook it up to my current board (an
>Asus SK8V) as the reading of the card from my PictureMate is glacially slow
>(2 hours for 30 JPGs).
>
>The instructions helpfully state "the black end attaches to the S drive, the
>green to the motherboard". Thing is, the cables supplied have two black
>ends.
>
>Has anyone been successful in using the above with an 'alien' board? I don't
>give a monkey's about the ports, but I'd love to be able to utilise the CF
>reader.
>
>Any assistance gratefully received.

Are the two ends identical or different?
What's the pinout configuration: rows, columns, spacing,
etc? What about wire colors?

You might consult the Soyo board's manual to determine what
the pinout was on that board and compare to the pinout on
the new board. Since the reader worked with the old board
we can assume the cable's pinout (at least one end of it,
probably both(?) matches the board, it would be a matter of
determining if the new board's USB port pin-header pinout
matches that on the Soyo board (assuming it does plug into a
"standardized" USB header on the old Soyo board).