8100 CD-Rom Drive

dricci

dricci

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The CD-Rom drive in my 8100/80 broke, so I took it out and bought an external SCSI CD-Rom drive. It works pretty good when I have the drivers installed. The external SCSI drive is in a LaCie brand case. I was wondering if I could open the LaCie case up, take the CD-Rom drive out (since it appears to be a normal CD-Rom drive) and then put it inside my PowerMac 8100/80 where the CD-Rom drive used to be? Would the connections be the same? I just don't like having the big huge LaCie sitting ontop of the powermac and a huge empty cdrom hole in the tower, and also I have to use up an extra electrical outlet just for the CD-Rom drive. I got this tower used from someone who refurbishes them, and I believe it was 3rd party CD-rom drive that had been inside of it anyways since I had to have special drivers and it had the headphone jack/play button like a pc drive, so I figured that I may be able to do a successful "transplant." :)

Anyone have any ideas about doing this? Anyone ever done it? Will it break anything if I just try it? Thanks!
 
I've replaced and installed CD-ROM drives in Quadra 800/840AV, PM 8100, and 8500. It is not that hard (specially if you are just replacing an old drive), but opening and closing the case is something of a pain.

RAM on the other hand is a different story!:D
 
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