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Answer» Quote from: Accessless on January 24, 2009, 10:44:47 AM A normal data connection. No power connection found. And does this POWERLESS cd drive actually work? An image of the connectors on the back of the unit would be a great help.I think the drive was thrown away after it failed from general use. I.e. it USED to work.Uhuh! It possibly used to have a power CABLE attached too...Not unless it was magically vaporised after the CD drive was removed. There was no trace of one (which leads up to the point of why I am confused).I promised myself i had quit this never ending merry go round--but i am going to try one more kick at this can.I have already told you that MY DELL XPS does NOT have a SATA power connection ability (even though it has 2 SATA data connections on the MOBO) So the removal of my SATA DVD/RW drive would not need to have the SATA power connector "vaporized".It never had one. Doesn't mean it didn't need power (as seems to be the poster's suggestion). In my case (REMEMBER the question was about DELL) it is NECESSARY to use a 4 pin ide to SATA adapter to obtain power. Are we all speaking the same language here?truenorthQuote from: truenorth on January 24, 2009, 04:04:28 PM I promised myself i had quit this never ending merry go roundabout i am going to try one more kick at this can.I have already told you that MY DELL XPS does NOT have a SATA power connection ability (even though it has 2 SATA data connections on the MOBO) So the removal of my SATA DVD/RW drive would not need to have the SATA power connector "vaporized".It never had one. Doesn't mean it didn't need power (as seems to be the poster's suggestion). In my case (remember the question was about DELL) it is necessary to use a 4 pin ide to SATA adapter to obtain power. Are we all speaking the same language here?truenorth No there are no free power connectors, not even standard IDE 5-12v. Ok I obviously need to re-examine the PC and see what else I can dig up as SATA data connections do not supply a viable power supply for any sort of known drive. Until then thread on hold... |
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