[iBook] MCE Combo drive upgrade for G3 iBooks?

[Ben Chong]

Hi Roger,

This is a brand new Apple-branded combo drive that is intended to  
upgrade early dual USB iBooks (like my 500MHz).

Today, I got fed up of waiting for a response from MCE and decided to  
check out if the drive works in IDE slave mode.

I have a spare PC with a notebook-type DVD drive so I could use the  
IDE adaptor to connect to the MCE drive.

On booting the PC, it reported that the combo drive was an IDE master.

I took some pictures and will email them to MCE's tech support. If I  
don't hear anything from them, I'm going to do something very nasty.

Ben

On Aug 13, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Roger Harris wrote:

> The Combo drives I have seen in early White iBooks is a Toshiba SD- 
> R2212. Some people have been able to install the Toshiba SD-R2512  
> and another Toshiba that I don't recall the model. These can be had  
> on ebay for as little as $50. When you can find them. They are  
> often pulls from HP or Toshiba laptops and the bezels have to be  
> hacked to fit an iBook. If you are replacing another 2212 the old  
> bezel may work?
>
> The dual USB iBooks are old enough now that many are dying and the  
> drives are on the market; But most only had CD-Rs.
>
> I have a couple of the Dual USBs to install Combos on in the next  
> couple of weeks and can give you more infor on the bezels and such.
>
> The flashing thing seems as much myth as anything that I can tell  
> so far. I have personally not read a real account of this.
>
> roger
> roger at rogerdharris,com
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Ben Chong wrote:
>
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>>
>> The first iBook I got was a 500MHz 2-usb on which I upgraded the  
>> hard drive and tried to upgrade to a combo drive (made by MCE).
>>
>> The first combo drive I got  did not work. There appeared to be a  
>> conflict between the hard drive and the combo drive. Without the  
>> hard drive, the combo drive could boot from a CD.
>>
>> Unfortunately, MCE has been less than responsive.
>>
>>
>> PS : I will be writing up my wintel-to-Mac transition on my  
>> website once I get my website files transferred across.
>>
>>
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