Thread: 50 pin IDE DVD

50 pin is the 40 IDE pins plus power and sound...

if you search the forum you'll find adapters for laptop cd/dvd drives

Vickumar used to have 'em, I don't know if anyone else does. I know for certain www.caseoutlet.com does.

Originally posted by Alphared
For a Internal Laptop DVD with a 50 pin IDE, is it possible to use the hard drive conversion adapter to change it to 40 pin IDE?

most likely...

generally, the connections on the 50 pin are set up so that the 40 pin ide connections are as they are on a normal HD, and the remaining 10 pins are for power, audio, and possibly drive selection (master/slave).

you will need to hook up the power to the drive, and unless the drive is digital audio compatible, you will need to hook up the audio as well.

~mike

the problem is that the pins on that line up to the power on the laptop hard drive.. if they fall improperly on the DVD drive it's toast.

Originally posted by Alphared
well this is the DVD adapter
http://cableclub.com/view_product.asp?item_no=99663

which doesn't fit. The back of the DVD looks like the back of the harddrive.

so I was referring to this:
http://cableclub.com/view_product.asp?item_no=99680

If your DVD player doesnt have a JAE 50 pin connector visible (standard laptop cdrom), then it probably has a custom adapter screwed in over it. I ran into this when I was looking into using a salvaged eMachine eOne slim cdrom drive that had such a adapter screwed to the drive. Removing the propriatary adapter revealed the common laptop cdrom connector.