[G4] Putting an ATA HD in Zip drive bay?

[rich northouse]

Anybody know how to put a CD or DVD drive in this Zip drive bay?  The 
door seems wide enough, but the opening is a little narrow,  perhaps 
some nibbling?  Someone must have done this already??

rich

On Oct 15, 2004, at 10:51 PM, Ron Steinke wrote:

> On Oct 15, 2004, at 7:49 PM, john wrote:
>
> The manual for my AGP Graphics G4 says not to put more than 3 hard 
> drives in the lower drive bays. Presumably from power consumption 
> considerations...is this a hard and fast rule?
>
> Related question: Is it possible to put a hard drive in the Zip drive 
> bay (lower bay of optical drive carrier)?
>
>
> I have four drives installed in my G4 Gbit Ethernet using a Sonnet 
> Tempo ATA-133 controller card with the extra ribbon kit. I had to put 
> in a Y-adaptor power cord to get the needed fourth power plug, but 
> they all are running without any problem.
>
> As long as you have one of the "piggy-back double drive" mounting 
> sleds, you can use it in the rear-most position and put the other 
> drives in the middle and front-most positions. Don't forget to get the 
> extra ribbon kit with the card to be able to hook up all the drives.
>
> HTH,
> Ron
>
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