26 Jul
2007
26 Jul
'07
8:42 a.m.
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 22:41, Michael Lee wrote:
The CD-ROM connector on sound cards etc you speak
about was for
particular CD-ROMs only. It was not IDE. A little search on the web
found the pinouts for a Mitsumi one as an example. There were
standalone cards for CD-ROM drives as well as a lot of the early sound
cards integrated some type of CD-ROM connector, eventually moving to an
additional IDE.
Rather than a thumbdrive or trying to figure out getting USB on an old
computer, it's easier to use Compactflash cards and an IDE to CF adapter
you can buy everywhere really cheap. Great reuse for the smaller camera
memory CF cards laying around everywhere too. I've done this a bunch
with older systems, actually last using it to backup data from an old
200Mb hard drive in an old 386.
"From http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/oth/mitsumi.txt"
I'm making the assumption that this is a Mitsumi Drive. I have only
three choices Mitsumi, Panasonic and Sony. Please note, this is NOT an
IDE (ATA) interface.
I have some older sound cards around that feature these three connectors on
them, and in addition have one (perhaps more?) cards that have _just_ those
interface connectors, presumably on an ISA board, though I'd have to dig
them out of the box to be sure. In case anybody can use such...
Also around here someplace I have a CDROM drive and interface card that uses
the old "Philips" (?) interface, that uses a 16-wire ribbon cable, if
there's anyone who might have a use for that.
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