[MacDV] Two DVD's in G4?

[Thubten Kunga]

Yes you can buy a pair of tin snips and cut the 3.5" corners off your 
old G4, bend a lot of metal and cram both inside. I did what you are 
asking with my 1999 B&W G3 (same case). It ain't pretty. But they're 
both in there now. But if you don't want your G4 to look ugly after 
doing that, you can just put the DVD-RAM drive into a FireWire case and 
it will work just fine.

k

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:29  PM, Tom Kirshbaum wrote:

> I run OS 9 and OS X on a three-year-old G4 400 AGP. It has a built-in 
> 5.2 GB
> DVD RAM drive.
>
> If I buy a Panasonic 105 Super Drive, can I install it also as an 
> internal,
> use iDVD to for burning movie DVDs, and continue to use the old 
> DVD-RAM for
> storage? I.e., will the system recognize both of them?
>
> The reason I want to do this is that I keep all my backups on DVD-RAM 
> and I
> want to continue to have access to them. I also have quite a few of the
> expensive 5.2 GB DVD-RAM media which I don't want to waste.
>
> If this isn't possible, could I put the old DVD-RAM in an external 
> Firewire
> box, install the 105 internally and achieve the same result? I'd 
> rather not
> have to buy the external box, but I will if necessary.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Tom Kirshbaum