Anyone try to use laptop CDROM's in a desktop???

[Dameon]

Hear me out on this guys, I'm looking to build the smallest, most quiet system possible.
Been looking around at this concept, like this drive.

Anyone know where to get a 50pin to standard 40pin IDE connector cable / converter?

 

[BA]

Standard notebook IDE is a 44-pin connection. Adapters and drives for 44-pin are relatively common. That 50-pin, I have no idea. They give you the pin-out, so you could theoretically make one, but that's probably not the best solution.

In my Virgin webplayer I have a CD-ROM out of a IBM Thinkpad 380 using 44-pin IDE.

 

[mindiris]

Maybe. However, I've used a hot swappable notebook pcmcia CDROM before . Just make sure it's some sort of IDE connector first

 

[SloppyB]

A Dell system that I have in my office has a notebook CD ROM drive in it. There should be something out there for you.

 

[Rand]

Sure it would work in a desktop system perfectly fine if you could find a 50pin adapter. Lots of 40pin adapters around but I don't know where you might go about acquiring a 50pin adapter, try a search on PriceWatch