[Nuke]

i decided to take apart my dead ipod for salvage purposes. i found out that this is the drive used in the 40 gig model. it seems the pinout is the same as the laptop drive adapter i have. i wonder if i could recover the drive for later use. i could probibly also use the battery for something, if i can figure out the charging power requrements. other than that the rest will go to the junk heap.

[kode]

how is it charged? via usb? if so, then it's 5V and not a whole lot of amperage. if by other means, it says on the charger brick.

and yeah, they use toshiba drives.

[Swamp_Thing]

Never throw electronic gizmos to the junk heap. Even if it looks like it´s a useless piece of junk, chances are you´ll find a new use for it. I never throw anything away, i always end up using the parts for some weird invention, or some Frankensteinian device. Like a new tattoo machine.

[Nuke]

i save important stuff. batterys, screens that sort of stuff.modern pcbs arent very easy to modify as they ate typically multilayerd and use components the size of a pinhead. not very tweakable often they dont survive dissassembly. it would be a million times easyer to make my own pcbs from scratch than to tweak a roboticly assembled one.

as for the battery, it has 3 wires coming out of it obviously one is voltage and the other is ground, the 3rd is probibly either a charge wire or a control signal. i still havent traced the model number down. 5 volt input could be converted to something else by the time it gets to the battery. when it comes down to components at this level its a good idea to read the electrical specs on it.

[kode]

http://ipodbatteryfaq.com/#9

the magic!
5V sounds like a somewhat reasonable charge voltage for a 3.7V battery, actually.

black cable would probably be ground/-, and red one +

[Nuke]

thats a general faq, not really a specs page. it did hint that its probibly a sony battery. as for the red and black wires, thats obvious, but what does the white one do?

[WMCoolmon]

I'm pretty sure the iPod can tell you if there's a low battery or not, maybe how much % is left, maybe that's what it's for?

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Not to rain on your parade but that HDD was never meant to be used in the same fashion as a PC drive. It only spins up when data is being read or written to it unlike PC HDD's which almost always are constantly spinning.

You'd need to be careful as to what you connect it to lest you hose it.
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[Nuke]

its a good probability its already hosed. but i gotta check to make sure. the thing that scares me is the apple logo on it. but according to the specs its an ata100 compatable drive. if it does work it would probibly be used for backup purposes only, that or linux drive il try it out after i put my new computer together.

[Kamikaze]

BTW: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/03recycle.html

[Nuke]

apple didnt technically support my ipod, that fell into the responsibility of hp. whos return policy s a million times more *****y.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
BTW: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/03recycle.html

Ooh! I can bring in an iPod that cost me $300 and save $30 on a new one! What a lovely thought! I can't wait to do so! [/sarchasm]

[kode]

bringing in a broken ipod without any warranty left when getting a new one and getting a discount sounds pretty good to me, though.

of course, I already get like 8% discount on apple products. the cheap bastards.