Combo Drive Enclosure Case

Hi,
Sadly, the logic board on my iMac G5 (17' ALS, 1.8 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB hd) failed a couple days ago. I was able to save the hard drive, the RAM and the disk drive. I bought a nice enclosure case for the hard drive and I am selling the RAM.
I would like to use the combo drive as an external drive, however, I am having a tough time finding a slot loading enclosure case for it. Here are my questions:
What type of connection does the combo drive use? ATA? ATAPI? SATA? IDE? I have no clue
Is there an enclosure case that will work for this drive?
Here is information about the drive:
Apple Combo Drive
Matshita CW-8124-C
Thank you.

Hey Sammy and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
OK you piqued my interest w/ this question. That number reminded and the form of that drive also reminded me of the iMac Tray Loader's CD-ROM.
I have a 17" 1.8 GHz iMac G5 that I just repaired. It's power supply was dead and they're $$ so I've got it running w/ a hacked ATX supply. (I take these in donation, repair them and donate them into the inner city)
I pulled the Combo drive out of it and removed that little right angle adapter from the back of the drive. That connector looked identical to the one in the iMac Tray Loader. So I looked down in my parts boxes and found an optical from a Tray iMac. Turns out its a CRN-8241B. The adapter board on the back converts it to that old iMac IDE connector that's standard IDE layout (except for the locater pin) but w/ the extra pins to power the drive. I pulled it and it seems to fit perfectly on the CW-8124-C (except mine's an -A). I can post pics if you like. Dunno about the screws.
So, disclaimer, I can't take any responsibility for the accuracy of this info but it looks like it will work.
BTW what happened to the rest of your iMac? Esp the power supply. Did the logic board fail or was it the graphics chip?
Richard
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