CDTV on ebay uk. Damaged CD drive.

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

trying to replace it with a standard modern ATAPI drive doesn't work...nor did trying to fit an IDE harddrive to the 40 pin connector

God no, its not an IDE interface, you could kill it  :-o
The drive uses an MKE interface (As found on some old 16 bit ISA SoundBlaster cards amongst other things), although I have been told that some MKE drives dont work with the CDTV, dont know why...

(There are double speed MKE drives around if you need that extra speed  ;-)

PS: Vesalia have cheap CDTV motherboards and CD32 CD-Roms but no CDTV CD-Roms :-(

The CDTV drive is very hard to get, but good luck on your bidding.

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

dosent the cdtv have a standard scsi cdrom?

Nope, although adding SCSI to the CDTV is very easy.

[Oli_hd]

Hi,
Just been going through my info, the CD-Rom used in the CDTV is a CR-511-B by MKE.
The pinouts for the slot are as follows:
1: /reset 2: Gnd 3: EFFK 4: SCCK 5: SBCP 6: scor 7: Gnd 8: Gnd 9: C16M 10: Gnd 11: /XAEN 12: Gnd 13: EMPASIS 14: D0 15: LRCK 16: DSCK 17: /MUTE 18: Gnd 19: /BUSY 20: /STCH 21: /ENABLE 22: DRQ 23: /HWR 24: Gnd 25: /DTEN 26: /HRD 27: /STEN 28: /CMD 29: /EOP 30: Gnd 31: DB7 32: Gnd 33: DB6 34: DB5 35: DB4 36: Gnd 37: DB3 38: DB2 39: DB1 40: DB0

Well that boored everyone to death with pointless info.  ;-)