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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: blogspot on June 09, 2004, 04:59:19 AM

Title: Dell D-Bay
Post by: blogspot on June 09, 2004, 04:59:19 AM

I just bought Dell Inspirion 300m, I got an external DVD writer with Dell D-Bay.
The Dell D-Bay has got a specific kind of USB connector, which has a double USB socket as against normal single USB socket(This double USB socket, as per dell people, withdraws power from cpu). I need some advice as to how I can connect my this external DVD D-Bay writer to a normal USB port.

Would appreciate any help on this.

Title: Dell D-Bay
Post by: mustache44 on June 16, 2004, 03:13:41 PM

i just got a refurb inspiron 1100 that came with an external D/Bay cd/rw dvd rom mdl.PD01S and appears to have the same type of end,it won't connect to anything i have.
pls advise

Title: Dell D-Bay
Post by: kwilley on June 28, 2004, 09:29:10 AM

/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':(\' /> That's the beauty of propietary systems.  One good note, the floppy drive that fits in the DBay, does have a mini-USB slot on the side and Dell provides the cable so you can use the floppy in any USB slot that is powered.