[G4] Quicksilver 3rd Hard drive

David Crandon tdc at attbi.com
Thu Apr 3 19:45:34 PST 2003


I wonder if your problem is related to the thing about aftermarket CD
burners trays/doors not lining up with that same bay...

David Crandon

senn wrote:
> 
> I recently added a third hard drive to my G4 933 in the bay right under the
> superdrive. What's weird though is the holes of the hard drive don't line up
> with the holes of the metal bay. It's like the holes of the bay are up too
> high. So I really couldn't secure the hard drive into place. I just slid the
> hard drive into the bay and connected everything....and viola it ran fine.
> 
> So I'm wondering if having a 7200 rpm drive just sitting snuggly in that bay
> is a bad thing? Should I find a way to screw it in? It's a 40Gig 3.5 Maxtor
> hard drive. Thank for any advice.
> 
> Sen
> 
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