[G4] Tip on G4 AGP CDRW replacement

Roger Harris roger at rogerdharris.com
Sun Feb 1 10:00:44 PST 2004


Richard, What they don't tell you is; To remove the door to the tray of 
the drive. These little tray doors just snap off on most all drives. I 
went through several CD-Rs before finding this out.

Roger



Richard Kriss wrote:
> One thing 'they' wll not tell you about is the mechanical interface issues
> with some drives for the G4's in the gray case.  I have a G4-450 AGP and
> went thru four CDRW (that all worked) until I found one that would not hang
> up on the case door.
> 
> As I recall there were two issues. One the drives with more than one button
> gave me problems and some of the treys would hang up on the case door.  I
> finally got a Sony and it works great.  There are better drives on the
> market now but make SURE you can get a full refund if it does not fit. Some
> charge a 20% restocking fee.
> 
>



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