Mitsumi Slim CD-ROM

[Phily]

Hi,
I dont know if anyone here could help but worth a try
I have a Mitsumi Slim CD-ROM (SR244W/244W1) CD-Rom drive from a laptop. Its set as default to be master on what ever IDE channel it is placed. I read somewhere that if i updated the firmware i could over ride the setting to make it slave by default. OR if there where basic pins that i would short to make the drive slave on the standard IDE cable that would do for me! There are no jumpers on this drive.
The reasion that I post this question here is that i wish to use this drive in my xbox as my homebrew/divx/svcd player as the standard xbox dvd-rom wont read cd-r.
Any info would be great. thanks

Phily.

[Agentspikey95]

Acctually, some do, but the ones that do have a samsung drive that has a different tray from the rest. i'll have a link if you wanna find out about it.

[Phily]

Yea, that be great.  Are Mitsumi and samsung drives alike? Any info from any would be great!

[Guest_Chris]

I had a Samsung slimiline drive that seemed to be set to cable select when I needed it as master.

Did a bit of research on the IDE connector and ended up connecting a pin to ground (pin 28 I think, not 100% sure) and I believe that connecting it to 5V would make it slave but I did not get a chance to check this.


Some slimline cd-roms have solder bridges inside them which allow you to set master, slave and cable select cuttting and making connections.

[Phily]

this is great news.  will do more research, but more info is always good anyone have one of these puppys?

[Phily]

What about the cable standard for IDE? is there any pins that i just put to 5v or ground to make the drive cable select or master?

http://www.gamesx.com/hwb/co_IdeInternal.html
or
http://www.gamesx.com/hwb/co_AtaInternal.html

[Phily]

I got some emails from Mitsumi saying that there are jumpers on the main board which will allow the drive to be made slave but they didn�t want to give me the location of these on the main board as it will kill the warranty  
Anyone know where I could find the location of the jumpers or the points to jumper? I have the main board out of the drive, it measures about 1 inch * 2 inches.
If needed I could scan the board for some genius to find the points