Elegant way to have 2 internal CDs?

dlookus

dlookus

Disgruntled user
I've got a G4 tower with a CD-RW in it, but I'd like to put the DVD-ROM back in it as well. I don't have a zip or anything, so I can fit it below the CR-RW. As far as I can tell no one has a Bezel for the G4 that would allow you to use 2 CD/DVD based drives. I'm sure at least one of you guys has run into this problem. Any ideas?

Thanks
 
I'm actually looking at this problem also.

I'd like to put a DVD rom in the 2nd slot but I'm informed by the Apple Sales Rep that I can't... only a Zip drive can go in there. He suggests that I get an external DVDRom drive. (Does he not get the point that I'm trying to save money?) Anyway.

I checked with the Genii at the bar and they seem to be of the opinion of "er... I don't know."

Considering the fact that my family already has a DVD player anyway, I don't find it a big problem that I can't watch DVD movies on my mac... although it would have been sweet...

Brian.
 
Without cutting the metal frame that would normally hold the zip drive in, no you cant. the second bay is for a 3 1/2 inch drive. dvd/cd/cd-r etc are 5 1/4 inch drives.

QP
 
You could get long cables for internally hooking the drive up and run them out the side of the case to the DVD drive, putting it into a cheap case off of eBay or something...
 
There is another option - and i'd only reccomend this if, as in my case, you happen to have a DVD drive already handy but can't use it otherwise. There's a company that makes something called the "Pyro external drive" or something like that - it turns optical drives & hard drives into external firewire devices. It *should* work with MacOSX although I haven't tried it. Problem is, it's $99 bucks by itself.

Brian.
 
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