Sony MDS JE510

[parkerbink]

I have an old MDS JE 510 and I would like to take the bare drive out and put it in my computer. I have a Creative Audigy Platinum 1 in my system. Is it possible to do this?

Thanks.

[The Ghost of FM]

I highly doubt you could pull that off considering what an IDE drive has on it from a circuitry board perspective and what is in the 510.

The voltages for a start would probably be wrong just to get basic power to it in terms of what a computer's typical power supply offers.

Then there's the 40 or 80 pin cables that would be needed to interface with the drive!!

You are asking for the impossible.

Your 510 has fiber optic in and out, yes? If so, so does your sound card. Transfer stuff back and forth through there and your problem is solved. Unless you have other problems?

Sony home PC's for a time had a MD drive built into the computer. Maybe talk to their parts department and see if you can buy it as a service part? or, speak to their service department and ask if it is possible to make their OEM drive work in a standard computer.

Cheers!

[philboyd studge]

I agree with Ghost of FM, if you've got the live drive panel on your computer just use the optical in/outs. Very clean recordings compared to analog.

[parkerbink]

You are emissing my point. I am talking about removing the drive from the MD 510 case and and putting it in the computer like a floppy, cd, or harddrive. Sony computers have been doing this for years. The bare drive looks like an internal compute rdrive, has a floppy molex power connector & a multipin connector.

[The Ghost of FM]

I've missed your point?

I answered your point and now it is you who are missing mine.

Re-read my post slowly and then think about apologizing.

Why do I even bother?

[Nd:Apricot Stu]

Give it a try... what have you got to lose? I doubt anyone here has any expertise on this topic, and I doubt anyone who posted has tried it before, so why not? As a guess, this probably wont work because you don't have (nor will you be able to get) a device driver. But I'm no expert, nor have I tried this.

So, Good luck!

[Speedy VonTrapp]

Originally posted by Nd:Apricot Stu
Give it a try... what have you got to lose?

Possibly frying some components that he might like to hold on to?

I doubt anyone here has any expertise on this topic, and I doubt anyone who posted has tried it before, so why not? ...snip... I'm no expert, nor have I tried this.

Well, he might as well listen to you, then!

Or he could take the other non-flaming advice, and ask people from Sony just to make sure (why would you not, unless you don't care about the equipment???) before just trying something half-assed.