broken SATA connector--how to repair?

David Wood

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Dec 11, 2005, 7:39:31 AM12/11/05

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My drive's SATA connector has broken (the plastic bit snapped off). I am
planning to solder the wires directly to the connector from a SATA cable
Has anyone done this / any advice doing this?

(what a dreadful design, worse than the old ATA!)

Trax

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Dec 11, 2005, 11:29:18 AM12/11/05

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"David Wood" <jdwo...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Advice would be to solder the old wires to new connector wires or
replace the cable.

Soldering directly to the pins you have a chance of overheating and
disconnecting something from the circuit board - I've seen silver'd
holes that a connection sits but no solder to make contact, it causes
intermittent or no contact; you could create the same.

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Toolman Tim

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Dec 11, 2005, 1:10:12 PM12/11/05

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David Wood spewed forth:

Is the problem only the plastic? I would not attempt soldering to the drive
circuit board. They are probably multi-layer boards, just like motherboards.
Any slip of the soldering and you could toast the drive.

If your main problem is that the plastic that held the cable is not keeping
the connection secure, I'd put the cable on the drive and use my hot glue
gun to permanently attach the cable to the drive.

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David Wood

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Dec 11, 2005, 1:35:39 PM12/11/05

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Would superglue be ok to attach wires to connectors on circuit board?
There seems to be 7 connectors but only 4 that are not Ground--ground seems
to be the shielding but I can' t see a
separate connection for each of the 3 grounds--anyone advise me on this?

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Toolman Tim

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Dec 11, 2005, 1:42:34 PM12/11/05

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Superglue is not going to make electrical contacts. If you broke the clear
off the drive, then it does need to be re-soldered. But if you haven't had a
lot of experience with computer grade soldering, I would suggest you have a
shop do it.

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old jon

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Dec 11, 2005, 1:49:20 PM12/11/05

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"David Wood" <jdwo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Would superglue be ok to attach wires to connectors on circuit board?
>

NO. don`t try to glue wires !!.

J-McC

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Jan 22, 2006, 7:12:50 PM1/22/06

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Here is a link to the specs for SATA. Pages 54 and 55 have the
connector and connections shown. I was unable to copy and paste these
two pages. The doc is in a pdf format.
I have not fully followed the messages BUT if you are talking of
glueing the wires then get an instrument maker technician to do the
soldering for you. These guys are skilled at fine electronic
soldering. If the connector is on a Hard Drive then it is worth
trying to have it repaired, if on a main board (motherboard) why not
just buy a SATA interface card and using the bios disable the sata
ports on the motherboard.
Good luck. JmCC

http://www.sata-io.org/docs/SerialATA_Revision_2_5_Gold.pdf
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