[General] help needed with figuring out dvd drive pinouts

[Will]

If you played movies through it, I'd advise against continuing the project
because you'd actually have to feed DVD-format video into the system in a
fairly specific way that doesn't lend well to swapping among movies without
some additional external control.

If it's GPS and map data, it means the system is likely accessing the disc
as a standard file system.  If you're really lucky, the system can read
FAT32 and not just the DVD file system format (ISO9660 or UDF variants).
I'm not sure what all will go into tricking the system into thinking the SSD
or HD is a DVD drive.

Can you put the DVD in a computer and see files on it?  If so, what format
does your computer's drive report for the disc?

Kinsey

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Matthew Hendrix <hendrix04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> no, that is probably easier than movies tbh.
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David <ainut at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> > no movies.  gps data and control programs only.  How does that make a
> > difference?
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > Will wrote:
> >
> > 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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