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Like the older Molex, or something really custom made to fuck users over?
Like a tiny proprietary connector, not Molex, not SATA. So the power supply had a single line running to the spinner HDD (standard SATA), and then piggy backed off that to the optical drive was this little connector. Kind of looked like a 4pin fan connector size. I didn't bother investigating after my plan to just disconnect the optical drive was thwarted
Ahh okay, that description kinda sounds like floppy drive power, but it probably is a proprietary thing.
I've asked my dad to snap a picture if he doesn't mind :) but it's a bit of a pain to get to
I didn't have anything at the house to split off the sata power and I was ok getting rid of my spare stuff so it worked out better anyway