Update: Build your own CD7 CD-ROM drive for Game Doctor SF7 / Professor SF II

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This message was posted by The Dumper, posted on May 05, 2001 at 13:59:25 coming from 216.127.80
I took my CD7 apart. Took some pictures of it that I haven't got around to uploading yet. Tried to email the couple of people that expressed interest in it before but didn't hear anything back from them. I had said that if nobody would commit to building it that I wouldn't go to the trouble of drawing out the schematic.

But, I've gotten interested in the project now and I'll probably build one myself.

The PCB will be pretty simple. One IC, one capacitor, a couple of connectors. At first I couldn't believe how anyone could make such a simple interface board for a CD-ROM and have it work but after taking the unit apart it all falls into place. It doesn't use an IDE CD-ROM drive! It uses a Panasonic (Matsushita) proprietary interface (MKE). The drive is a Panasonic (Matsushita) CR-563-B 2x unit. Some of you may even have one of these laying around because they shipped a lot of them with Creative Labs SB16 CD-ROM kits. There is also a CR-562 that is basically the same drive without the digital audio out on it.

The interface board I have also looks like it has an option to use a serial interface and possibly use a Sony proprietary interface instead of the Panasonic. The Sony parts aren't stuffed and I'm not going to bother trying to trace those out. My PCB will be Panasonic only.

I hope to have a schematic done by Monday. It will probably take me awhile to get the PCB design done because I'm just a beginner at that.
I plan on getting a external IDE case with a parallel port interface and replace the parallel port interface board with the CD7 interface.

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Message	> I took my CD7 apart. Took some pictures of it that I haven't got around to uploading yet. Tried to email the couple of people that expressed interest in it before but didn't hear anything back from them. I had said that if nobody would commit to building it that I wouldn't go to the trouble of drawing out the schematic. > But, I've gotten interested in the project now and I'll probably build one myself. > The PCB will be pretty simple. One IC, one capacitor, a couple of connectors. At first I couldn't believe how anyone could make such a simple interface board for a CD-ROM and have it work but after taking the unit apart it all falls into place. It doesn't use an IDE CD-ROM drive! It uses a Panasonic (Matsushita) proprietary interface (MKE). The drive is a Panasonic (Matsushita) CR-563-B 2x unit. Some of you may even have one of these laying around because they shipped a lot of them with Creative Labs SB16 CD-ROM kits. There is also a CR-562 that is basically the same drive without the digital audio out on it. > The interface board I have also looks like it has an option to use a serial interface and possibly use a Sony proprietary interface instead of the Panasonic. The Sony parts aren't stuffed and I'm not going to bother trying to trace those out. My PCB will be Panasonic only. > I hope to have a schematic done by Monday. It will probably take me awhile to get the PCB design done because I'm just a beginner at that. > I plan on getting a external IDE case with a parallel port interface and replace the parallel port interface board with the CD7 interface.
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