Slimline Extender Cable

[Technochicken]

Does anyone know where I could buy an extender cable for a slimline optical drive? All I have been able to find is adapters.

Thanks,

TC

[Mach]

Like this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002WP5SN0/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B002P6UA7U&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0ZPZPEFP70F4G9MFBJ45

[Technochicken]

No, I an IDE slimline extender. This kind of port:http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/laptopupgrade/NBCD-Adapter-display.gif

[Mach]

Ouch, constructed of unobtanium. Another modder made his own which he sells.

http://paul.thejennis.com/JAE50/About.html

Pricey but if you gotta have it.

[Technochicken]

Man, that's expensive. I have a hard time imagining anyone would pay that much for a cable. Maybe I'll give making my own a shot, but I'm afraid the soldering skill needed is far beyond me. Thanks for the help anyway.

[NightrainSrt4]

I'm pretty sure you can pull those off the old bubble imac drives. I'm almost positive that's where I got mine.

[Technochicken]

Which is the bubble imac? The G4 lamp one? I took an old G3 Bondi Blue apart a while ago, and it did not have one.

[Mach]

Yeah they're apparently on the mac mini's also.

[Technochicken]

I just looked at the ifixit teardown of the mac mini- both the new and old versions- and did not see a cable like this.

[Mach]

You're right I don't t see it either. Here is the discussion that gave me the idea.
http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5895

Dell laptops (d600 maybe) used a similar cable. I believe it was jae 50 on one end and IDE 40 on the other but not sure.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=67936&page=2

http://img117.exs.cx/img117/597/modularideconnector7ld.jpg

Edit: I just found a Dell ultra bay and the connector looks to be wider than the JAE 50

[Technochicken]

I actually have one of those dell bays, and tomorrow I am going to try to make my own extender using the male JAE 50 port in the bay and the female port from a broken drive. I just need to get a finer head for my soldering iron.

[NightrainSrt4]

Which is the bubble imac? The G4 lamp one? I took an old G3 Bondi Blue apart a while ago, and it did not have one.

Mine came from the big blue one that had the crt built in. It was a tray loader though, not a slot load, if that makes any difference. I don't know if it would work with newer drives though as I only used it with old server slimline/laptop drives.

Edit: I was confused by the response earlier I guess. I got one of the things shown in the picture that converts the drive to ide with the separate power connectors, not the thing with the cable shown in the dell picture. Maybe it's a different way of doing the same thing, if so ignore this edit, lol.

[Technochicken]

Sorry if there was any confusion. What I need is a JAE extender, which has the optical drive's slim port on both sides- like what Mach linked to:http://paul.thejennis.com/JAE50/About.html- , not an adapter, which converts the optical drive's port to IDE or SATA. Those are readily available.