Hi Ravi Thank you for the answer on the bios, my power supply cables that run to my old dvd a 4 pin connector with a jumper connector for parallel to run another ide optical for the old style ide dvd player and a couple more hot feeds sticking out of the power supply that I surmise that they are for floppys.  All together there is 5 plugins coming out of the power supply box one going to the hard drive and the others are close to the dvd area.  However none of the power connectors fit the new dvd GCC-H10N and my power supply that exists behind the dvd mounting does not have the 15 pin power connector.

If you would be so kind I would like you to find out which part numbers are for the cables to plug in from the mother board to the dvd  and the power cable conversion (?) from the power box to the dvd.   I'm rather new to the sata so I'm rather lost in that department.   Just re-read my post and any help would be fully appreciated. I just need to know what both of these cables should look like sinse I have nothing to go by because simply  don't know.  You can email me at 

if you have pictures of ends of all the cables because I need to see what the shape of connectors are and how many pins they contain and that would help alot....

Seems like from the earlier date on my old dvd Model #GCC-4482B made in feb 2006 (ide configuration) Dell must of came out with a newer style GX620 with maybe a different power supply box with a different wiring hook up for the Model # GCC-H10N that was made in Oct 2006  It makes me wonder if they changed the whole inside of the tower - power supply and mother board configurations too...

And 1 more question - will windows xp service pack 3 handle this dvd?

Much gratitude to all who contribute...

No Frost

You can put an IDE to SATA bridge and use a SATA DVD ROM with the IDE cable and power.

kingwin.com/.../adp_06.asp

www.amazon.com/.../B002SZDOM6

Microcenter, Newegg, Amazon carry these.

This is the Features/Specifications for the old GCC-4482B DVD drive:

Burn your own CDs, back-up data and even watch your favorite DVD movies with this LG GCC-4482B CDRW/DVD-ROM combo drive! The LG GCC-4482B features write speeds up to 48x, rewrite speeds at 24x, and read speeds up to 48x. This drive also reads DVDs at 16x.

Features/Specifications:  

•LG 48x24x48 CDRW & 16x DVD-ROM IDE Combo Drive

•General Features:

•Black Bezel

•48x maximum write speed (CD-R)

•24x maximum rewrite speed (CD-RW)

•48x maximum read speed (CD)

•16x maximum read speed (DVD)

•E-IDE/ATAPI interface

•Front Panel Features:

•Eject/Load button

•LED activity indicator

•Emergency eject hole

•Rear Panel Features:

•Digital audio connector

•Analog audio connector

•Jumper settings

•IDE interface

•4-pin power connector

•Supported Disc Formats:

•CD-ROM

•CD-R

•CD-RW

•DVD-ROM

•Regulatory Approvals:

•UL

•FCC

•CE

•VCCI

•BSMI

•TUV

•C-Tick

Additional Information:  

•Product Requirements

•IDE controller

•IDE cable

•Available 5.25-inch drive bay

•Available 4-pin power connector

•Burning software

•DVD decoder (hardware or software)

•Blank recordable media

And this is the specifications of the newer GCC-H10N sata Dvd......

Burn CDs and play DVDs with the Hitachi GCC-H10N CD-RW/DVD SATA Drive

Create CD-R media at 48x speeds, rewrite at 40x speeds and read CD-ROM discs at 48x! The GCC-H10N also reads DVDs at 16x speeds and features a SATA interface with data transfer speeds of 150 MB/s. Everything you need to record to a variety of DVD and CD media is with this Hitachi GCC-H10N CD-RW/DVD SATA Drive

Features/Specifications:  

•Hitachi GCC-H10N 48x40x48 CD-RW/16x DVD-ROM SATA Drive

•General Features:

•Black bezel

•SATA interface

•SATA 150 MB/s data transfer speed

•48x maximum write speed (CD-R)

•40x maximum rewrite speed (CD-RW)

•48x maximum read speed (CD)

•16x maximum read speed (DVD)

•Front Panel Features:

•LED activity indicator

•Stop/Eject button

•Emergency eject hole

•Rear Panel Features:

•Serial ATA interface

•Serial ATA power connector

•Supported Disc Formats:

•CD-ROM

•CD-ROM XA

•CD-R

•CD-RW

•CD-DA

•Video CD

•CD-I

•CD-Extra

•DVD-ROM

•DVD+R

•DVD-R

•DVD-RW

•DVD+RW

•DVD-Video ROM

•Regulatory Approvals:

•cULus

•CE

•C-Tick

•BSMI

•TUV

Additional Information:  

•Model: GCC-H10N

•Product Requirements:

•SATA cable

•SATA controller

•Burning software

•DVD decoder (hardware or software)

•Available 5.25-inch drive bay

My question is....

Seems like the ide adaptor would use the data transfer through the old 39 pin ide parallel flat cable coming from the mother board and would impead the data transfer rate verses using a sata 7 pin which transfers data around 150 (I think).

The main obstacle is the 15 pin power supply cable that does not exist from the power supply mine are only 4 pin - 2 wires are hot and 2 are ground. since both units use 5v / 12v and 1.3a / 1.3a seems it seems odd that the newer style dvd would require a 15 pin hot feed coming from the power feed box.   Does anybody know which color codes of these wires are hot and what color codes are neutral or maybe justify what all the extra wiring is for since it's just a power feed cable.  I figure that some of the wires are not used and are dormant but depends which other different brand of computer this unit goes in and may change their configuration to power the unit????   Seems like you could figure out which wires need to be hot and splice into the cable coming out of the back of the dvd and energise the line and figure out which grounds to use as well...

I would be nice to know if anyone has ever gotten around this problem.

No Frost

I believe I found the answer I needed myself.  The Hitachi GCC-4482B has 5v / 12v 4 pin power connection and from looking at the back of the dvd player from right to left  P1 +12v  P2 GND  P3 GND  P4 +5v

just like the GCC-H10N is also 5v / 12v

however the 15 pin configuration shows that 3 pins are 3.3v and 3 pins are 5v and 3 pins are 12v

From right to left looking at the back of the dvd the 15 pin power connection is

P1 3.3v  P2 3.3v  P3 3.3v  P4 GND  P5 GND  P6 GND  P7 5v  P8 5v  P9 5v  P10 GND  P11 Reserved  P12 GND  P13 12v

P14 12v  P15 12v

So this shows that they are using 3 different voltages to run the dvd verses 2 different voltages to run the other dvd it would require a step down voltage of 3.3v from the power supply in order to make this dvd function through one of the extra 12v wires coming out of the power supply box and step it down through modifications.

I wish to thank those who answered

And as always

C....No Frost

I'd use a SATA drive with a Molex-to-SATA adapter for the power connector if the power supply didn't have any SATA connectors.

I got to looking and and happen to detect a very small 1/4 x 1/2 - 8 pin connector that comes out of the power supply box it contains 4 wires 1 red - 2 black - 1 yellow (one pin is void it's just a blank spot) so it's actually a 7 pin holes but has 8 holes made into the connector.

I checked the voltage to these pins and one pin is 3.3 volt - one pin is 5v - and one pin is 12v and the rest appear to be grounds.  You'll have to excuse me because I'm not that up on different dvd wiring harness'es but anyway can anyone tell me in detail what the harness is supposed to look like.

1 question since the harness that goes into the back of the internal mount dvd player (Dell mini tower optiplex gx620) is that harnes made into one piece with the sata and power supply together or they seperate plug in's?...   I have yet to see the harness set up and the slot looks really tight to be shoving 2 seperate plugs into the back side by side with each other so I'm thinking its a combo cable made into one plugin?...  (just checking)  Maybe a picture would be nice.

I'm getting closer than I was and I'm seeing a million combinenations of cables to buy but I don't need to buy any that don't fit and waste my time so if anyone has this setup it would be nice to see it and learn...   Thank you for everyones input...

No Frost...

Startech and others make Molex to sata power converters.  

The IDE to sata bridge ADP 06 has the same power and data connection as a standard IDE DVD Drive.

www.newegg.com/.../Product.aspx

I also am trying to install a SATA DVD-ROM into my Optiplex 620.  I do have the one SATA hard drive, and an IDE DVD-ROM which is not quite dead yet but dying.

I drove down to Radio Shack which has a MOLEX to twin SATA power connectors, $5.99:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3783066

I plugged the SATA connector into one of the blank SATA plugs on the mother board.

The drive powers up no problem, the tray goes in and out, the BIOS recognizes that there's something there but doesn't recognize the drive.  Not sure what to do.