Help identifying lead in PP workstation (CD Rom)

Question

A couple of months ago, I had to 'steal' one of the leads from one of our PC workstations for another purpose.  I'm in the process of replacing the lead, but cannot for the life of me determine what kind of connector's required.  It's the one that supplies the power to the CD Rom drive.
It's a SATA connection on the CD drive, and I'd assumed it'd be a molex on the other, but the protruding lead is not a molex.
See pic of lead in pic I've uploaded.
Thanks for any help!
ADAM
InterMedia

Answer 1

I'm facing exactly the same problem now. Initially I reported it as a K3b bug. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35858 However, it seems that running cdrecord manually also spoils blank CDs. All the data is written, even the checksumming succeeds (!!!) but then the CD looks blank when re-inserted.
The only difference with respect to your report: The CDs *can* be written multiple times. Obviously, this destroys them completely, so K3b's checksums won't match any more. (Actually they can't be even generated, because the CD is not readable any more.)
This is either a hardware failure, or some software glitch, such as a forgotten finalization step that would make the filesystem on the CD accessible. (Anyway, writing an ISO image should be just straightforward, no filesystem metadata is generated. Everything should be in the ISO file already, byte by byte.)
Last edited by andrej.podzimek (2013-07-11 12:45:34)