I'm using my Cube without the optical drive. AND with TWO hard drives! It's fine. My stock optical drive(DVD-rom) had some trouble ejecting discs and I got external DVD burner. My Cube works flawlessly with all modifications; 1.3 Gigadesign CPU, Radeon 7500, Ram 1GB, and two hard drives 80GB+80GB. It can boot from the external firewire DVD burner as well. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:42:04 +0100, Riba <riba at ml1.net> wrote: > > On 2005.01.28, at 21:29, dads at tds.net wrote: > > > I had to replace mine, and it turns out it the new part was defective. > > Anyone know if the cube will run alright without one? I'd rather not > > reinstall the broken original while I wait for the RMA to run it's > > course.... > > It will. > > _______________________________________________ > Cube mailing list > Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube >