Using floppy drive cradle to house optical drive?

Has anyone successfully used a floppy housing to install an optical drive? I went ahead and opened one of them. I remember in desktops the floppy and opticals have a different port (fdd/ide), so perhaps the pin configuration is off. Another thing I noticed is the floppy uses a ribbon that crimps on other than a connector like the panny rom does, but perhaps a replacement that uses ribbon/crimp mechanism could work?

 

Nope, been tried, won't work.

 

Nope - sorry.

The FDD caddy uses different pins on the bulkhead connector from the pins used by the CDROM. No worky; at least not without a hot air rework station, the correct schematics, a donor Optical drive connector cable, correct schematic, and a good solid weekend's worth of microsoldering. THEN you have to cobble together a means of mounting the drive in a caddy that doesn't have enough room for it.

In other words, it would be less misery to adjust one's nuts with a pair of pliers...

mnem
A little further to the left...

 

Oweee.......

 

me thinks the Dwagon is feeling better, your explanation sums up why it's called a FLOPPY!..................Driller

 

Agreed.

mnem
My grandfather always warned me not to use pliers on my nuts... it tends to strip them.

 

Grandaddy was a Grand Dwagon, glad to see you're feeling better, on another post the discussion was about test tickels, so now we're tickelish? Why men don't arrainge their hair at a stoplights? scratchity scratch, as you would say..........Driller the test tickler