so back in the pre-sata, pre-m.2 era, laptops usually used 44-pin IDE, which is a terrible connector. So to fix this, they'd have a little adapter in the drive sled that'd adapt 44pin-IDE to some more sturdy connector.
This laptop seems to have used the CompactFlash adapter for that connector
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2026-05-03 20:43:28 UTC
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