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rcurl
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Mac Optical Drives
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Oct 7 19:38 UTC 2007 |
For discussion of optical drives for the Macintosh - CD or DVD.
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rcurl
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response 1 of 7:
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Oct 7 19:41 UTC 2007 |
I would like to swap out a CD read-only drive for a DVD read/write drive,
in a 2001 Mac G4 (533 MH). Is this easy to do? I don't want to get into
the guts and discover I can't do it, or need a special cable, or whatever.
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keesan
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response 2 of 7:
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Oct 8 18:29 UTC 2007 |
In a PC they use the same cables. Make sure they both are set the same way:
MA, SL, or CS. If you play music to speakers, you need to plug the sound
cable in, along with data and power cables. Some cases are tricky to get
apart. There are probably screws holding the drives in place.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 7:
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Oct 8 18:34 UTC 2007 |
I found a web site giving explicit directiions for this computer.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/hival52x/install.html
Amazing place, the web. There are still problems in finding stuff, however.
One has to refine one's searches in not always obvious ways.
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ball
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response 4 of 7:
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Oct 9 22:34 UTC 2007 |
I have thought about buying a G4 tower, but past experience with Apple
firmware makes me wary. I like DVD-RAM drives btw.
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rcurl
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response 5 of 7:
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Oct 10 01:49 UTC 2007 |
Macs are mostly virus free.....
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ball
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response 6 of 7:
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Feb 18 18:19 UTC 2009 |
?
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rcurl
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response 7 of 7:
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Feb 18 21:11 UTC 2009 |
Ghost of past desires... I got the DVD drive, but haven't installed it
in the 2001 G4, mostly because I got a MacBookPro and have slowly
shifted over. Obsolesence is always nipping at one's heels.....
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