I had an old Iomega external CD burner whose motor stopped working. I
took it apart and tried to plug an INTERNAL DVD burner to the rear
board of the old Iomega (assuming that was the board that made it
capable of being external). It didn't work. Any ideas? I did switch
the DVD burner to the master jumper.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> I had an old Iomega external CD burner whose motor stopped working. I
> took it apart and tried to plug an INTERNAL DVD burner to the rear
> board of the old Iomega (assuming that was the board that made it
> capable of being external). It didn't work. Any ideas? I did switch
> the DVD burner to the master jumper.
>

just the size matters ? no !

there were proprietary ( folkert , where are you ? ) drives which have
the same plug , but neither ide nor eide and really not atapi compatible
.. there is absolutely no difference between internal and external . both
need data and power .

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"wolfgang schneider" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)
> In article (E-Mail Removed), (E-Mail Removed) says...
> > I had an old Iomega external CD burner whose motor stopped working. I
> > took it apart and tried to plug an INTERNAL DVD burner to the rear
> > board of the old Iomega (assuming that was the board that made it
> > capable of being external). It didn't work. Any ideas? I did switch
> > the DVD burner to the master jumper.
> >
>
> just the size matters ? no !
>
> there were proprietary ( folkert , where are you ? ) drives which have
> the same plug , but neither ide nor eide and really not atapi compatible
> . there is absolutely no difference between internal and external . both
> need data and power .

Geez Wolfgang, there really is no end to your stupidity, is there.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)
> I had an old Iomega external CD burner whose motor stopped working.
> I took it apart and tried to plug an INTERNAL DVD burner to the rear
> board of the old Iomega (assuming that was the board that made it
> capable of being external).

> It didn't work. Any ideas?

Board deceased as well? PowerSupply dead?

> I did switch the DVD burner to the master jumper.

Why?

On 17 Nov 2005 13:53:25 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I had an old Iomega external CD burner whose motor stopped working. I
>took it apart and tried to plug an INTERNAL DVD burner to the rear
>board of the old Iomega (assuming that was the board that made it
>capable of being external). It didn't work. Any ideas? I did switch
>the DVD burner to the master jumper.

Many of the external drives are often hard coded to only work with
certain model(s) so you're probably out of luck. You'd be better off
with a decent universal external case.
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