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Laptop CD Pinout?

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mike

Flightless Bird
Laptop CD drives have a standard, I think, connector with
an intermediate board to convert to whatever makes it proprietary to the
laptop.
Is this a standard IDE interface? Pinout?
I want to build a connector that
can hook to a usb/ide converter for testing CD drives in the field.
Googling got me nowhere 'cause I don't know what to call it.

Pointers?
Thanks, mike
 
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BillW50

Flightless Bird
mike wrote on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:55:08 -0800:
> Laptop CD drives have a standard, I think, connector with
> an intermediate board to convert to whatever makes it proprietary to the
> laptop.
> Is this a standard IDE interface? Pinout?
> I want to build a connector that
> can hook to a usb/ide converter for testing CD drives in the field.
> Googling got me nowhere 'cause I don't know what to call it.
>
> Pointers?
> Thanks, mike


Hi Mike! All of the ones I have seen are generic slimline PATA
connector. They may have an adapter between the drive and the
motherboard though. I suppose there is or will be some with SATA connectors.

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Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
 
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mike

Flightless Bird
BillW50 wrote:
> mike wrote on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:55:08 -0800:
>> Laptop CD drives have a standard, I think, connector with
>> an intermediate board to convert to whatever makes it proprietary to
>> the laptop.
>> Is this a standard IDE interface? Pinout?
>> I want to build a connector that
>> can hook to a usb/ide converter for testing CD drives in the field.
>> Googling got me nowhere 'cause I don't know what to call it.
>>
>> Pointers?
>> Thanks, mike

>
> Hi Mike! All of the ones I have seen are generic slimline PATA
> connector. They may have an adapter between the drive and the
> motherboard though. I suppose there is or will be some with SATA
> connectors.
>

Thanks, "slimline" was the key...
mike
 
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Barry Watzman

Flightless Bird
Laptop IDE optical drives standard IDE interface but with a different
connector (note that some laptop optical drives are now SATA instead of
IDE). You can buy adapters on E-Bay for a couple bucks (literally) that
will adapt the laptop IDE thin-line optical drives to a standard desktop
40-pin IDE connector.

mike wrote:
> Laptop CD drives have a standard, I think, connector with
> an intermediate board to convert to whatever makes it proprietary to the
> laptop.
> Is this a standard IDE interface? Pinout?
> I want to build a connector that
> can hook to a usb/ide converter for testing CD drives in the field.
> Googling got me nowhere 'cause I don't know what to call it.
>
> Pointers?
> Thanks, mike
 
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