[masterhackman]

For anyone else out there with a PB Wallstreet, would it be possible to build myself an internal DVD+-R/W similar to the MCE drive ( http://www.mcetech.com/dvdmultipbg3.html ) available only for Powerbook Lombard and newer? I would want to order the laptop DVD-R/W seperately to save $$.

I'm thinking about working off an existing Wallstreet 20x CD-ROM, a MCE hard drive adapter, etc... any other ideas to create the wallstreet-expansion drive IDE bridge?

As far as I know, all combo drives that make use of the Wallstreet drive expansion bays simply adapt the power / IDE input to standard IDE and ATX power connectors.

Apple-compatible firmware and booting aren't issues for me - I already have the original Apple CD and DVD-ROM drives for Wallstreet. Using the same Panasonic / Matsushita mechanisms found in the MCE drive should make this project firmware-compatible with a wallstreet.

Thanks,

Bill

[masterhackman]

http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/m...roduct_Count=7

Link to the MCE expansion Wallstreet drive kit I'm thinking about slicing up to run power / IDE connection to a 8x DVD-R/W/RAM laptop drive.

Good idea?

Bill

[masterhackman]

A pic of the Wallstreet 20x CD-ROM module disassembled:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan...bms/ebmwst.jpg

Flipping the ATX power interface over to a new laptop IDE drive mechanism doesn't look like a problem from the pic, but disconnecting the custom flex cabling for the ATA IDE data interface looks a little scary...

In your opinion, does that giant red arrow in the pic point to a *disconnectable* 40-pin ATA interface that I could jack into directly, bypassing any flex cables problems?

Bill