ST310014ACE Project - Step 6

I'm getting ready to solder the wires to the DB9 connector. Since the diagram for it in my Serial Programmer Circuit Diagram shows the view looking into the female side, I created another diagram showing the pin side so I don't get confused while attaching the wires. It looks like this:

That's it for now. I'm off to heat up my iron and attach some wires.

EDIT - 11:00 pm

All wires for the complete circuit are soldered in place. I hooked it to the power supply, turned it on and nothing popped, smoked or exploded. :) Now I need to connect the data cable to the drive and the serial cable to a computer and see if I can chat with the Seagate ST310014ACE hard drive. I'm tired so I'm going to save that for tomorrow.

EDIT - 12:25 am

I changed my mind about waiting. I just had to see if all this effort was worth it.

It worked!
It worked!
It worked!

Yay! I am so very happy.

I'll take some pictures and post my screenshots another time.

EDIT - 2:04 am

Ok. Here's a picture of the completed project. It's ugly. I have wires going every which way, but it worked. ;-)

Notice that the power connector is not plugged into the hard drive. There is a reason for that. I'll explain when I post some more.