[General] help needed with figuring out dvd drive pinouts

[Will]

I remember you talking about this project before, but I don't remember some
of the other details.  Is this a DVD drive in a laptop or something else?
If it's a laptop, hopefully it's a full IDE interface that isn't locked to a
particular type of device.

Kinsey Moore

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Hunter Fuller <hfuller at pixilic.com> wrote:

> Look up laptop IDE Pinouts for old IDE laptop drives - these were 50
> pins connectors that supported sending power over the same connector.
> It may be just IDE and power.
>
> As far as replacing it, this may not work, as your device needs to
> emulate an IDE optical drive. Flash drives and memory cards emulate
> hard drives, or removable disk drives.
>
> -- Hunter Fuller
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
> > I have circuit board, dvd drive, flat flex 50 pin cable that connects the
> > drive, a usb driven "logic analyzer," and some breakout boards.  However,
> I
> > don't really know how to use the analyzer and not sure how to determine
> the
> > pinout functions.  Documentation says this drive is ide, but is has 50
> pins
> > and using a multimeter to trace which pins connect to which part of the
> > "cpu" doesn't work at all.
> > My goal is to replace the faulty dvd drive with a solid state drive, or
> usb
> > thumb drive, or maybe an sdhc memory card.
> >
> > I need help here, PLEASE!  I'm pulling what remains of my hair out.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David Merchant
> >
> >
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