Well I threw in the towl again... something is definately unique and funky with these IDE drives.. I just wish I knew what those last 4 pins were for.. I think they are power... but not sure.. I just don't know.. I have taken my outbound apart like 100 times.. I put her back together today and she's staying together for a while. I give up.. I even formatted the drive as 20MB.. this card I didn't see the activity light go at all though... I even put power on it and still no activity light