[rescue] Mysterious CDROM enclosure connectors

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on 7/7/02 8:23 PM, Dave McGuire at mcguire at neurotica.com wrote:

> On July 7, Matthew Braun wrote:
>> Whilst at work I uncovered a nifty little dual CDROM enclosure from the
>> garbage downstairs (along with a bunch of other neato stuff like a boxed
>> rackmount hub, 4Gb Compaq SCA drive in sled, boxed barcode scanner, etc).
>> The only problem is I can't identify the connector.
> ...
>> I can only find vague references to this device (apparently OS/2 supports
>> it, for what good it's worth). Does anyone know what kind of connectors
>> these are?
> 
> This is a VERY old proprietary Sony CDROM interface.  A few
> manufacturers had interfaces like these.  To use it, you'll need the
> matching ISA-bus controller board.  Some sound cards have appropriate
> interfaces on them as well.
> 
> This sort of interface predates the rest of the stuff you found by
> quite a bit...I've not seen those drives in active use for at least
> ten years.

I recently found a card for those by Creative, it doesn't have any of the
audio usually associated with these. It just has a "Creative Drive" port and
a "Sony Drive" port. It is labelled "CT1830" on the top of the card. Could
you get any use out of this Matthew?

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