Little-Miss Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Tying to replace a teachers optical drive. Looking up on internet for a replacement and then came across the option of Sata or IDE... I dont think its a SATA but it doesnt look like an IDE either lol!!
timbo343 Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 It looks to me like a manufacture own connector. Its a bit like the dells. Is there no part codes on the drives or owt
sdc Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Looks like a laptop's CD/DVD drive - slim ATAPI connector?
mdench Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 tend to find the laptop drives dont have an ide or sata this is mainly cause its a combined data and power socket
MYK-IT Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Connector for external bay/fdd/cdrom/dvd for use with a laptop. I would agree looks like a Dell, similar to one I had with an old Dell latitude
Gatt Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Is that one of those magical drives from the likes of "24" where any device can be plugged in to any other device and where an entire hard drive can be downloaded in seconds!?
plexer Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Sometimes the manfacturers one is placed over the industry standard adapter but does that one look like it's solder to the drive pcb? If it is then you'll have to replace it like for like. Ben
andy_nic Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 did a search found this website CD/DVD-RW optical drive >> Laptop Parts 101 they say its a a slim ATAPI connector as sdc said
Little-Miss Posted November 22, 2011 Author Posted November 22, 2011 Well you're all wrong, its a Toshiba L300. Ok my confusion has stemed from a seller on fleabay who obviously doesnt know what he is talking about! lol
HaleStorm Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 its an ATAPI connector, some laptops have specific connectors which use an adapter plate. but the CD/DVD-ROM side is generally a ATAPI, unless its a new SATA drive
Michael Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 That connection is standard on laptops. As others have stated, it's a slim IDE connection for optical drives. New laptops of course have SATA connections these days It literally is a case of unscrewing it, sliding it out and sliding a new drive in place.
timzim Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 It's the laptop's mouth - that's where you have to feed it (see the little teeth along the bottom).
Little-Miss Posted November 22, 2011 Author Posted November 22, 2011 Hmm and what does one feed a laptop?
Michael Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Hmm and what does one feed a laptop? Chips of course (sorry, had to be said).
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