Wednesday, August 19, 2015

sata - What cable do I need to connect this motherboard DVD port to this DVD drive?



This is an image of my laptop motherboard DVD drive connector. Seems to be 13 pins:




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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:



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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).


Answer



You can’t use this DVD drive in your laptop. The drive has an IDE connector, while the laptop has a newer SATA port.




Here is a link to your DVD drive. It has a Parallel ATA interface while the laptop has a Serial ATA interface. They are not electrically compatible.


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