How to connect laptop-style slim DVD drive to IDE or USB p..

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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" <mknwNOSPAM@ceti.pl> wrote in message
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> 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
> mknwNOSPAM@ceti.pl

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http://www.mpcparts.com/skuinfo.asp?sku=130224

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Not what he's looking for. That is for a HDD, he needs something for a
laptop optical drive.

"mpcpartsdotcom" <cencami@milwaukeepc.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.mpcparts.com/skuinfo.asp?sku=130224
>