[sf-lug] Hardware hack for laptop - Raspberry Pi in the optical slot.

[tom r lopes]

Here is a Pi Zero emulating an IDE drive:
https://hackaday.io/project/20774-netpi-ide

Actually the Pi is attached to a bridge board which if you look closely
here:
https://hackaday.io/project/20774/gallery#ebe580c94305c186198e016d3ce22895
(Pi is screwed down on the right side.)
I suppose you could go SATA to PATA adapter to this?

Seems like retro SCSI is easier:
http://retropc.net/gimons/rascsi/
(in Japanese but readable in Google Translate)
If you scroll down a bit you see that the GPIO can be directly connected to
SCSI
(though warnings about damaging the Pi)


The Pi Zero has "USB gadget mode" so can be USB cdrom:
https://github.com/tjmnmk/gadget_cdrom

Thomas


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> From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
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> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:19:13 -0700
> Subject: [sf-lug] Hardware hack for laptop - Raspberry Pi in the optical
> slot.
> Hi LUGers,
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>      I asked sometime back one of our knowledgeable members about this
> sort of thing
> and was told it was impossible.
>
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> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-zero-replaces-broken-laptop-optical-drive
> >
>
>      The laptop now runs on the Raspberry Pi.  But it takes a 3D printer
> to produce the board that
> makes mounting the RP in the optical drive slot possible.
>
>      Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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