[Cube] CD stuck in cube

[James Deamara]

Hi all.

    If anyone's interested, replacing the internal cd-rom drive in the cube 
wasn't as hard as I first thought.  I decided to replace it with a slot 
loading slim DVD-ROM/CD-R/RW combo drive.  The biggest headache was mounting 
the drive and insuring that it's slot was aligned properly with the slot at 
the top of the inner cube cage.  I had some small scrap sheets of aluminum 
which I fashioned into a pair of flexible brackets.  It's definitely worth 
the effort, no more frustration with stuck disks...for now anyway. :)  
Complete newbie's might want to pass on this option though.

You'll need a slot loading slim profile (laptop) drive, I used a panasonic 
drive (UJ-85J-B) but you may want to get one with apple firmware 
(DVR-K05PD).  If you use a non firmware drive you'll also need to use 
patchburn or some other utility to create a hardware profile in order to 
burn disks.  You'll need a slim CD-ROM to IDE adapter and a molex power 
supply converter/extension cable (converts a 5 1/4" power supply cable to 3 
1/2").  As mentioned you will also need a way of mounting the drive.

And don't forget to change you hd setting to slave! :)

James.

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