uj-850 to usb enclosure

[alyonka2004]

I have an optical drive model UJ-850 harvested from a broken acer laptop.
Question - what adapter can I use to externalize the DVD drive? please forgive the newbie question. The back of the drive looks like 20 pins running parallel to each other inside a rectangle. so 20 pins on top and 20 pins on the bottom.
Thank you in advance

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

The Panasonic UJ-850 has an IDE/ATAPI (Parallel ATA) interface so you need a PATA-to-USB adapter cable like this one which supports both HDD & ODD: http://www.usbnow.co.uk/Adapters_&_Connectors-USB_to_IDE_Adapters/c42_46/p52/USB_2.0_IDE_&_SATA_Cable_%28with_Power_Supply%29/product_info.html

However, it won't look very elegant when it's all connected up, and since new optical drives are relatively cheap to buy
I personally would buy a new one that's designed for the job.