Franc Zabkar wrote:

One hiccup for LG drives may be the interface. Some designs use a
mini-flex version of the standard 40-pin IDE. In this case you can use
a small adapter PCB (supplied with some LG drives) to handle the
connector conversion.

- Franc Zabkar

The Panasonic drive is connected with a flex cable.
It never occurred to me that the cable may simply
be a version of the standard ide interface. How
can I tell?