[General] help needed with figuring out dvd drive pinouts

[Hunter Fuller]

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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