[iBook] MCE Combo drive upgrade for G3 iBooks?

[Roger Harris]

Now that is very interesting. I hadn't heard anything about Apple  
having upgrades to the iBook 500s. I hope that works. How much are  
they charging for these?

XLR8 your Mac has a lot of user info on the Toshibas but nothing on  
MCE. There was some mention of master/slave in one report.

I am wrong on what I said on MCE; I even have their page bookmarked.  
Obviously the gingko isn't working. The slot looks nice. I now recall  
ruling out this much money on a $350 iBook, and I didn't think I  
would burn DVDs on anything without Altivc. But new is better than  
used and the best new drive I found was $125 and it wasn't a ready  
fit with the bezel.


Roger


On Aug 13, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Ben Chong wrote:

> 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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