[General] help needed with figuring out dvd drive pinouts

[Will]

Is the DVD drive used for playing movies or is it used for navigation data?
Since you want to replace it with a SSD or other flash media, I'm leaning
toward movies and the like.

Kinsey

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:41 AM, David <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

> **
> It is a DVD drive in a car's navigation setup.
>
> David M.
>
>
>
> Will wrote:
>
> 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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