sanyo lat-200a.

[Stijn Bagin]

Hi, I'm responding to this old thread about the Sanyo LaT-200a because I have here a Running Sanyo SAT-250A /X286.  This board is located inside a Sanyo LT17 Laptop (or something that once was) and is running perfectl with an AMD 80286, 640k conv and 384k upper.

If anyone still reads this and might be interested or just want's more information, you can contact me at stijnbagin at hotmail.com  

Only trouble is that it has some sort of 50-pins connection harddrive setup (i have been thinking SCSI) directly on the mainboard from which I can make heads nor tails.  

I want to hook up a standard 40 pins IDE drive, but I'm not sure how to proceed without a datasheet on the specific connector...  The Bios knows all 47 standard HD layouts and a 3,5 inch floppy drive is already in place...  I also succeeded to remove the old monochrome LCD display and the huge controllercard and replace it with a smooth standard ISA 16-bit full color Headland Technology's Video 7 board.  The only thing remaining is this Harddrive problem... who helps... ?

I must also mention that standard the 50 pins connector was relayed onto a "SMS"<brand> controllercard which converted the 50 pins into a managable 26 pins connector on which i can find even less information...   The 3,5 inch harddrive took it's juice and information all from these 26 pins (the brand on this harddrive is also unknown on the net)....  I'm hoping this controllercard is unimportant and that the 50 pins are the ones to proceed with...

Greetz