MAKE a CD player

Step 2 Connection options

Most IDE (or SATA?) CDROM drives have a volume control and ear phone jack in the front.
You can easily plug your amped speakers in front, but the wire gets in the way.

You must remove any IDE connector from the drive,
but make sure the power supply is connected.
(There was already a small power supply in my external drive box.)
Don't worry about whether the drive is set as a "master" or "slave". It doesn't matter.

The option I used was to mod the CD-to-soundcard cable so that it has audio jacks at the other end.
That is a line-out connection, and so the volume must be controlled by the speaker's amplifier.
You may cut up an old useless sound card leaving Only it's audio jacks. (NO mobo slot)
CLEARLY LABEL the drive and the jacks and pray that no dummies with mu-sick CDs come by.

I never did this to a SCSI drive. I think it will work, but if you try please comment on the result.

Comments

[iToasterz]

My Sound Card Is Just A Card In The Mother Board And Has No Audio Jacks, I Also Can't Take The Card Out. Can Some One Please Help.

[electronic boy]

this advice works gr8 i built one but instead of plugging in a pair of speakers i put in a 12 volt amplifier with two speaker jacks