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Catwhisker
PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 3:21 pm 
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Pictured is a mystery board I acquired. I am leaning heavy to CD/DVD. But. Stranger things have happened. I provided back, side and front view. I am confident. The forum members can nail the evaluation.
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austin86
PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 3:40 pm 

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looks like a CD board to me, to much blank PCB to be a hdd board if you'd ask me.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 4:07 pm 
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I have to agree. That opening in the board. Laser head.
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Definitely!
Lots of ribbon cable connections for the different things in the drive, hdd don't have those. This board doesn't seem to have any switches, often CD/DVD drives have small switches near the edge. Also don't see any here, labeling on the board itself often has words like "eject" "volume" or similar functions you'd expect in CD drives as well as NTSC or PAL for the video formatting in DVD drives.

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marked141 wrote:
Definitely!
Lots of ribbon cable connections for the different things in the drive, hdd don't have those. This board doesn't seem to have any switches, often CD/DVD drives have small switches near the edge. Also don't see any here, labeling on the board itself often has words like "eject" "volume" or similar functions you'd expect in CD drives as well as NTSC or PAL for the video formatting in DVD drives.

5 1/4 floppy or tape drive broad maybe, but I have seen some drives with a second board for the bottoms and it looks like there are 2 ribbon connectors of the edge.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2026 9:54 am 
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Interesting. Taking a second look at the photo of the CD-Rom category. My posted board looks like half of the example photo. Like pointed out. The connectors on the back of the board possibly feeding another board. Which I have seen. I'm submitting it in the CD Rom category. And be happy with that.
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