Broken prong on CF Card Reader

[jamieh]

Ughh.. one of the prongs in my CF Card Reader bent when I put a CF card in there crooked.
The CF slot still works fine for reading and writing though.. Can anyone tell me what that last prong is used for?

Thanks

[MaxIBoy]

Power, probably.

[Rhubarb]

It looks like Pin # 26, which is signal ground.
As it has other ground pins, it may work ok as you suggest, perhaps with a chance of some data corruption possibly.

http://www.interfacebus.com/CompactFlash_Memory_Module_pinout.html

If you want to fix it, grab some needle nose pliers and straighten out the pin.

If your CF reader is using it as an IDE --> CF, then Pin 26 appears to be a n/c (no connection, which means it isn't even used)
http://pinouts.ru/DiskCables/ide2cf_cable_pinout.shtml

[mips]

If you want to fix it, grab some needle nose pliers and straighten out the pin.


A pair of tweesers could also do the job.

[regomodo]

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[Rhubarb]

Oh yeah, I forgot CF readers have a denser pin layout than IDE drives do (which is what I've fixed before).
Tweezers it is then!

[jamieh]

Okay I'll try fixing it with tweezers.

I payed $60 for that piece of crap a bit over a year ago, now it looks like memory card readers are going for $12 and under.

[mips]

Okay I'll try fixing it with tweezers.


Bend the pin really slowly though.

[MaxIBoy]

Reminds me of the time I bent about 50 pins on my CPU putting it back in (I was cleaning out the heatsink, and the CPU was stuck to it.) I tried straightening them, and about three snapped off.

It was great! I had an excuse to ditch that crappy Sempron and build a real rig!