I trust that you have read the overview. If not, i suggest you take a look.

So, here's the writer i have used for this mod. You can use whatever you want though:

This is an ASUS SATA DVD-RW. This specific one isn't mine though. I had to quickly find a DVD-RW that wasn't modded (no such writer in my house) and one of my buddies, Michael, offered to let me mod is for him. Thanks Mike!

So, as said in the overview, the point of this mod is to be able to open your opti without having to press the hardwired eject button, but by pressing an eject button that you have put anywhere on your case. This will add a very nice touch to your mod, and will just add that little extra bit of detail.

So, first off, you'll have to open up your writer. Please note that this will almost definitely void your warranty, so be careful. Once your writer is open, look for the eject button. With most writers, it'll be the only button (unless your writer is an older one). Once you've found that switch, turn your writer upside down and have a look at it from the bottom:

As you can see, there are FOUR pins. The switch, however, only uses two of them, the other two are there to support the switch. Now, in some cases, like this one, you can actually see which two pins the tracks on the PCB are coming from. In thise case, it's the two pins on the bottom. But if you can't clearly see which two pins are the correct ones, plug a molex connector into your drive. That's right, while it's open and bare, plug it in and turn it on. While it's running, touch any two points simultaneously with a screw driver (or anything metal) until the tray opens. Once the tray opens, you know which are the two pins. This is the method i have used in the past and it works well.

Okay, so now that you know which two pins are the ones that are the actual pins that the switch uses, all you need to do is solder a piece of wire (make it a long wire, you can shorten it later) onto each pin, like this:

That's basically the hardest part of the mod done (see? I told you it was easy). Now you just need to find a way to get these cables out of your writer. I was lucky with this specific writer because having SATA ports at the back makes the rear of the writer so empty, leaving lots of space for the wires. Unfortunately i can't help you with this step, because every writer is different in this case. Some IDE drives have loads of space at the back to get the wires out, some have very little. I remember when i was still working on Epiphany, i actually had to cut away some of the unused points at the back of the writer to make space for the wires. Have a look.

Anyway, here's what i did on this specific writer. I sleeved the cables in some gorgeous clear techflex and then routed them out the back of the drive through a small hole i drilled in the back:

And that's basically all there is to it! All you need to do now is solder a switch to the end of the two wires (solder each wire to a point on the switch). Close up your writer,  power it up, and VOILA!

Here's a video of this specific writer in action: 

And this is another video of a remote switch i have done. This was in Epiphany: 

That's it guys! Hope you have done this mod. It's really very easy, doesn't take long, and it's just SO cool.

God Bless

Ettienne