Replacing optical drive with HDD/SSD in nav computer

[frank_70]

Hi,
Is it possible to swap a CDR drive with a HDD/SSD without the device knowing it?
Situation is that a navigation computer needs to be fed a different CDR per country driven through. As I live on a border, this is pretty annoying. I'd like to put all data on one device and feed that to the computer. It's the computer used in nav systems of VDO and various OEM integrated into german cars.

 

[bf2gameplaya]

What an unexpected twist to your question. It is good that you supplied that extra information as it changes the answer from "Yes, in a manner of speaking." to "It depends on how your navigation systems embedded controller is engineered".

On a PC you can trick an OS into thinking a HDD or whatever potion of it is a cd-rom volume with common tools, Alcohol, Daemon Tools, etc, or some applications don't even need extra software..just change a few locations here and there and done.

On a dedicated device with embedded system control (not an OS like Windows or Linux) you will be hard pressed to make the logical changes required...even on the unlikely assumption there is a way to plug the HDD into the device to be read!

Why they don't use DVD is a better question!