Second optical drive

[Simon Briggs]

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:23  PM, Power Macintosh G4 List 
wrote:

>  1) Second optical drive

Yes it can and has been done, I put a CD-RW as well as the DVD drive in 
my 400 (i now have a DVD-RW instead of the original DVD ROM.
The joy of being a mechanical engneer from England is that you are 
allowed to use the word bastard (as long as it is associated with the 
word file) in a sentence :-)
You will need some tin snips and a bloody great bastard file, the 
advantage of having worked with Brummies (people from Birmingham) you 
are allowed to use the word bloody (and others) ad lib ;-)
actually DO NOT USE A BLOODY GREAT BASTARD FILE as it will leave metal 
filings inside your computer (VERY BAD). just use tin snips and heaps 
of courage.
alternatively just stick the DVR-105 in place of the OE unit and have 
done with it (it burns everything you need to, faster than your current 
drive and has buffer under run protection
if you wish to see my G4 dual optical....

http://home.earthlink.net/~stagsimon/g4dual.JPG

I used the original cover, a ZIP bezel and the original blanking plate, 
and some doublesided tape to make it look reasonable. A pain, but worth 
it?

Good luck

Simon Briggs
G4/400 Sawtooth
OS10.2/Superdrive/CDRW/ 704Mb Ram