External Burner Housing won't Hold New Drive????

[sickofit]

Hello...

A buddy of mine has a 770X 366Mhz and he has a Iomega USB external burner....now the burner is screwed,just sits there trying to read discs....so I took it all apart and its just a normal drive....but when I tried to put a LG 52X CD-RW drive in the enclosure it doesn't work...tried all the jumper settings....nothing......its just a normal power connector.just like on a internal drive,and an IDE cable soldered to a board,which you then hook to the drive,just like a normal one....

Any ideas why this wouldn't work????....old burner was a 4X...the one i was trying to put in was a 52X....

Thanks in advance....

Greg St.L

[AlphaKilo470]

USB 1.0 and 1.1 simply can't handle anything that fast. And the enclosure probably can't either since it was from a 4x drive and those were in use a few years before we had USB 2.0, and Iomega probably never intended for anyone to use the enclosure for another product anyway.