Hi,

I was wondering how the 2.5" wd1200bevs switches to safemode. If you take a look at the drive, you see next to the sata connectors some serial like port. I'm not sure about this, it is 4 pins, could be a jumper block too... Any idea if this IS some kind of data connector ? If not, where is it then used for ? Also, any ideas on how to switch this drive into safe mode ?

A picture of the drive:




Look at these 4 pins to the right, next to the sata data and power connectors .. Then look at the next picture:

It looks like this converter from PC3000 (but made for the seagate) would fit it:



(right connector). But then again, i thought that only the WD HDD's didn't come with a serial interface !?!?

This connector is standard for SATA drives and nobody promise you what it have a serial port interface on it :)

PS: WD drives do not have serial port interface
If you need safe mode just power on PCB only

Ok, interesting, thanks again for the info, Doomer !