Sony Spressa Firewire enclosure ?

[jeremy.king]

I have a question for all those hardware geeks out there.

I have a Sony Spressa CRX1600 external firewire (er i.Link) CD-RW (the 12x8x32 model) and was wondering if there is simply some IDE to firewire bridge inside that would allow me to upgrade the drive inside it to say a DVD-RW (specifically the DRU-500A).

Has anyone ever tried this? Or better yet, has anyone tried swapping any drives inside one of the Sony Spressa enclosures?

I read somewhere that suggested Sony uses some proprietary communication bridge for these, but can't find much else on it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

JK

 

[GeeYouEye]

The IDE interface is not proprietary (ie, you can put the burner in another FW enclosure... ClubMac makes/brands a good one) but I think there's a firmware issue on the Sony bridge so you can only put another Sony in.*

* That's how they did their USB bridge so I'm assuming their FW bridge is the same. I could be wrong though.