[mythtv-users] IDE adapter/cable.

[drew einhorn]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Carl
Fongheiser<carlfongheiser at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM, drew einhorn<drew.einhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have an old laptop ide dvd recorder I'd like to stick
>> in a mini-itx box, does anybody know of a source
>> for an adapter or cable the has a desktop IDE
>> connector on one end and laptop IDE connector
>> on the other?
>
> If you hunt around on newegg or similar sites, you'll find them pretty
> easily.  They're pretty cheap, too.  (~$8 for one I saw on newegg.)

All I can find is desktop to laptop hard drive adapters.

Laptop cd/dvd drives use a funny connector that I've never seen
anywhere else.  It is much smaller than a 2.5" laptop IDE connector.
It supplies power in addition to data.  Hmm.  Maybe it's some other
interface and not IDE.  They have been using the same connector
for a long time, long before I even heard of a SATA drive.

-- 
Drew Einhorn