First post, by Rikintosh
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I'm building a small barebone pentium 4, and originally it had a regular IDE dvd burner. This takes up a lot of space, however, and obstructs the precious ventilation inside the case, so I decided it would be a better idea to use a laptop drive. The idea came in handy because this case is missing the cd drive port, and it is a proprietary type that is part of the design of the case, it would be difficult for me to create another one, but using a notebook cd drive (I intend to use a loading slot) I'll just glue a piece of acrylic that has a slot for the CD to go in.
I already have the driver here (which came from an apple powerbook), but I can't find anything on the internet that turns the notebook cd IDE connector into a desktop IDE. English is not my native language, so I created this topic to ask for help, because maybe I don't know how to refer to this adapter, or maybe it has an English name that I don't know, because when doing several searches, I only found ide adapters<- >sata, or ide<->ide (laptop hard drive). The G3 imacs have something like this, but it's not an IDE output (looks like SCSI). I've seen laptop drive adapters on desktop, but they were SATA.
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