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How to connect laptop-style slim DVD drive to IDE or USB port
I'm building a mini-ITX machine. I've a Travla case with a place for a
slim drive on the side. There's no room inside for a full size CD/DVD drive. My question is, how to connect this kind of drive to IDE (or USB) port? As far as I know all these drives have some weird, wide connector, but some of them are visible as removable (USB?) devices in Win XP - for example I can stop and remove my DVD/CD-RW drive from my Toshiba M2 laptop. So I assume it's some standard port type. Any ideas? -- Maciek |
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Is this what you need? It converts a slim laptop ide optical device into a
standard ide device. I have a couple of them I use for testing drives and they work great. http://www.directron.com/cddvdadapter.html "Maciek" wrote in message ... I'm building a mini-ITX machine. I've a Travla case with a place for a slim drive on the side. There's no room inside for a full size CD/DVD drive. My question is, how to connect this kind of drive to IDE (or USB) port? As far as I know all these drives have some weird, wide connector, but some of them are visible as removable (USB?) devices in Win XP - for example I can stop and remove my DVD/CD-RW drive from my Toshiba M2 laptop. So I assume it's some standard port type. Any ideas? -- Maciek |
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Not what he's looking for. That is for a HDD, he needs something for a
laptop optical drive. "mpcpartsdotcom" wrote in message oups.com... http://www.mpcparts.com/skuinfo.asp?sku=130224 |
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