Adapter needed: laptop CD port to full-sized IDE

[Kaido]

Can't find them, don't know if they exist. Basically I need to take a laptop's optical drive port (slimline) and convert that into an IDE port. Port looks like this: (back of a slimline optical drive)

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/27-129-003-03.JPG

 

[21stHermit]

I'm sure adapters from notebook IDE to full size IDE exist. However let me suggest an alternative . . . why not a USB to IDE adapter. Very cheap ~$14, and they work great.

FWIW
Hermit

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit
I'm sure adapters from notebook IDE to full size IDE exist. However let me suggest an alternative . . . why not a USB to IDE adapter. Very cheap ~$14, and they work great.

FWIW
Hermit

Not IDE, but optical. There's a difference. They're not the same, like full-sized ports. A slimline optical takes a weird little plug while a laptop hard drive takes a bunch of pins, like a real IDE cable. Totally different I want the speed advantage of using the bus directly, since this is for an internally-mounted project.

 

[Kaido]

Did some more research, still no luck, but I've narrowed down what I'm looking for:

A cable or adapter board that takes a full-sized desktop 40-pin 5.25" IDE/ATAPI CD/DVD drive and converts it into a 50-pin slimline/slim-style optical drive connector.

 

[Kaido]

Okay, I don't think this drive exists. Contacted a number of companies this afternoon.

Anyone know a person or place that custom-makes cables?

 

[Kaido]

Problem solved, found the converter in an ultrabay drive. Just have to rip it apart. Not as elegent as I had hoped but functional.

 

[bacillus]

you can get something like this .

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: bacillus
you can get something like this .

Nope, need the opposite. Found a way to get one by hacking an ultrabay drive. But thanks for the try!