OpenPeak 2 Pata Port mods
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:12 pm
Here trying an experiment with an OpenPeak 2 motherboard.
I have decided here that a small SATA mini PCiE card / SATA whatever is still too big for the Openpeak 2.
That said I had soldered on (micky mouse wise) a 40 PIN ZIF pata port connector. While the Openpeak 2 still boots fine the PATA port Zif that I soldered never did work.
New endeavor now is trying again here with a surface SMD hot air soldering machine.
This will enable me to use the 15cm ZIF cables to a ZIF SSD PATA drive.
I am using my test board so while at it may solder on a micro SSD card slot to the motherboard.
Only thing that I have done with these is add a USB port using the cam port on the top and a USB stick to boot an OS or writing a small OS to the 2Gb built in MMC.
What I like about this device is that it has a massive heat sink over the motherboard which is similar to the Openpeak Joggler looking devices.
I have decided here that a small SATA mini PCiE card / SATA whatever is still too big for the Openpeak 2.
That said I had soldered on (micky mouse wise) a 40 PIN ZIF pata port connector. While the Openpeak 2 still boots fine the PATA port Zif that I soldered never did work.
New endeavor now is trying again here with a surface SMD hot air soldering machine.
This will enable me to use the 15cm ZIF cables to a ZIF SSD PATA drive.
I am using my test board so while at it may solder on a micro SSD card slot to the motherboard.
Only thing that I have done with these is add a USB port using the cam port on the top and a USB stick to boot an OS or writing a small OS to the 2Gb built in MMC.
What I like about this device is that it has a massive heat sink over the motherboard which is similar to the Openpeak Joggler looking devices.