This is an image of my laptop motherboard DVD drive connector. Seems to be 13 pins:
And this is another image of the connector to an internal laptop DVD drive I have (one that doesn't physically fit into my laptop). Seems to be 25 pins:
QUESTION: What cable do I need to buy to connect the two together? Are both ports SATA ports? I don't know anything about hardware.
UPDATE with more information:
Don't see any model number on the motherboard. Laptop: Acer Extensa, model MS2394
DVD drive is from Sony, model number: CRX880A
By the way, I should mention that the laptop didn't ship with any DVD drive in it, but it seems pretty obvious opening up the laptop that it has an unused connector that I could use for connecting a DVD drive. They just put a hunk of removable plastic instead of a DVD drive, presumably to keep the laptop as cheap as possible (it's a low-end laptop).
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