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Offline FingersTopic starter

HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« on: January 22, 2009, 07:38:15 AM »
Asking here as there seem to be quite a few Efika owners on this board.

Although I've read that the Efika doesn't officially support more than one IDE device at once...has anyone had luck running a CD or DVD drive with the HDD still in place (two IDE devices on the same cable/chain)?

The empty slim optical drive hole in my Efika's case keeps asking me! :-)

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Offline motorollin

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2009, 08:32:56 AM »
The IDE interface does not support extending the hard drive away from the board (as in the case of a splitter cable) and does not support multiple devices. I have read that doing so not only will not work, but could damage the EFIKA.

I have got a CD-ROM drive on my EFIKA connected by USB. I'm not using a slim drive, but you could use something like this. Take the guts out and there will just be a little PCB which will connect to the CD-ROM drive and convert it to USB.

Note that I have no idea whether that particular one will work on the EFIKA or fit your optical drive. It's just an idea. My only experience is with a standard 5.25" CD-ROM and a 40 way IDE->USB1.1 converter, which worked.

The adapter I use is this one.

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 08:42:50 AM »
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I have read that doing so not only will not work, but could damage the EFIKA.


OK, I won't even try it...thanks for the warning Moto! :-)

Might try your idea of modding an external enclosure's guts, which looks good to me.

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 08:51:54 AM »
I know for sure that they will fit some laptop CD drives as I have used one with a ThinkPad drive which I took out of a T23 laptop.

You could also try mounting your EFIKA CD drive how I did :-D

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 09:24:22 AM »
Tried to watch your movie file but "no hexview yet"...whatever that means?!?!

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 09:32:22 AM »
Have you got Quicktime installed?

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 09:44:08 AM »
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Have you got Quicktime installed?

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Yeah...on my Mac though...is there a MorphOS version available & where do I get it?

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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 09:46:48 AM »
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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 09:56:01 AM »
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Had to download QTLite on Windows but it works.


A couple of years ago when my main home machine was a PC, Apple provided a PC/Win full version of Quicktime (presumably to steer people towards their hardware).

From what you said...they no longer do? :getmad:

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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 10:20:34 AM »
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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 03:32:15 PM »
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Yeah...on my Mac though...is there a MorphOS version available & where do I get it?

There's a MorphOS version of VLC Media Player. That might play Quicktime files. You can find it here.

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 03:37:13 PM »
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A couple of years ago when my main home machine was a PC, Apple provided a PC/Win full version of Quicktime (presumably to steer people towards their hardware).

From what you said...they no longer do? :getmad:

The do.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

The download page will offer the Windows version if you're on a Windows machine. QTLite (linked to above) allows you to play Quicktime files (in your browser IIRC) without the full Apple version of Quicktime.

If you have iTunes installed then you already have Quicktime.

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Re: HDD & CD/DVD on Efika?
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 04:34:17 PM »
I used one of these to connect a CD Drive to my Efika:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136214

(Obviously with a IDE to laptop CD drive converter :))

I'm sure there's other simalar things for sale in your area of the world :)
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