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I have the PowerMac setup as you will see below in my signature.
I am interested in purchasing and installing this Yamaha internal CD-RW device:
http://yamahashoponline.com/product.asp?sku=2269599
My question is that I thought I'd heard somewhere that you're NOT supposed to take out the original PowerMac CD-ROM drive at all, or else your 'puter won't boot...or something like that. Is this true?
I asked Yamaha CD-R tech support and they said:
"In regards to your e-mail, the requirements for the drive is as follows:
-G3 Power Macintosh, 300Mhz or faster.
-64MB of Ram
-Built for OS X; Compatible with OS 9.1 or higher.
-Avaiable E-IDE port."
So far, so good (assuming that "available E-IDE port" means the same thing as the ATA-33 connection that comes with my PowerMac, right?). ...But, this does not exactly answer my question. In a further inquiry to Yamaha, the answer was:
"I do not think it will damage your system but you may want to contact apple to make sure."
I have searched the Apple Knowledge Base archives. Could not find anything directly related, though these two articles are close - AppleCare docs #58429 and #58698. The most hopeful thing from these is that, apparently, it is possible to replace the optical drive with another. But it does not specify whether or not you may replace the original, Apple drive with another, 3rd-party one. That's my question.
Oh, and I did not find this specific question addressed anywhere on this site, either.
Answers? Ideas? Trepidations? Come one, come all!
I am interested in purchasing and installing this Yamaha internal CD-RW device:
http://yamahashoponline.com/product.asp?sku=2269599
My question is that I thought I'd heard somewhere that you're NOT supposed to take out the original PowerMac CD-ROM drive at all, or else your 'puter won't boot...or something like that. Is this true?
I asked Yamaha CD-R tech support and they said:
"In regards to your e-mail, the requirements for the drive is as follows:
-G3 Power Macintosh, 300Mhz or faster.
-64MB of Ram
-Built for OS X; Compatible with OS 9.1 or higher.
-Avaiable E-IDE port."
So far, so good (assuming that "available E-IDE port" means the same thing as the ATA-33 connection that comes with my PowerMac, right?). ...But, this does not exactly answer my question. In a further inquiry to Yamaha, the answer was:
"I do not think it will damage your system but you may want to contact apple to make sure."
I have searched the Apple Knowledge Base archives. Could not find anything directly related, though these two articles are close - AppleCare docs #58429 and #58698. The most hopeful thing from these is that, apparently, it is possible to replace the optical drive with another. But it does not specify whether or not you may replace the original, Apple drive with another, 3rd-party one. That's my question.
Oh, and I did not find this specific question addressed anywhere on this site, either.
Answers? Ideas? Trepidations? Come one, come all!