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Steve Anderson wrote:What I have been trying to find out with extensive 'Googling' is the format of the 16-bit parallel data on the EIDE connector at the rear, so far I haven't got anywhere.
Steve A.
Viewmaster wrote:Is this any help?....scroll down the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_T ... Attachment
Albert.
M3DVQ wrote:the 40 pin connector is IDE, for data... will this contain the original audio data?
if the drive has a digital-audio out (a 3 or 4 pin connector) isn't that what you want?
Steve Anderson wrote:Here's the back-end of one of the spare CD ROM drives I have, they're both the same. Speaking to my PC Guru here he says they're all the same. This is a PC drive, not a player in the stand-alone 'Hi-Fi' sense.
However, he wasn't able to shed any light on the data that comes out of the 'digital' port, and like me, has found that no-one uses it or the analogue output of the CD drive itself. Perhaps that's why the DVD/CD burner in my desktop (Samsung) doesn't have an analogue output.
Steve A.
M3DVQ wrote:I think modern OSs can get the audio off digitally hence not requiring the cable any more)
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