Are CD/DVD laptops connections all of the same?

Are all CD/DVD drives in laptops all the same? I am asking because I pulled
out one of my spare MX6124 DVD burners and I was thinking of making an
external USB DVD drive out of it. And I was hoping if I bought one of those
external USB cases that it would work. Although the connections look a
little strange to me. I never even noticed the laptop CD/DVD connections
before. They don't look like hard drive IDE connections like I thought they
were.

I did buy and get yesterday from Hong Kong of all places, an external USB
DVD burner. Looks very nice, but can't read anything after 5 to 10 minutes
(never even tried burning anything). I popped the cover off and no way would
my MX6124 connect to it. There are no plugs inside and it is all soldered.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)


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