Hi all,
Before the week is out I will have an old G4 eMac to play with. It's the 800 version. I've sorted out extra RAM for it but the eMac only has a CD reader drive. My options are to buy an external DVD -/+ RW or even a dvd player CD-RW combo and just plug it in when needed OR, and this is what I would prefer for neatness, take the olod CD drive out and replace it with a better drive unit.
I'm fairly confident that I can follow instructions on how to do the actual swap but my brain isn't what it used to be 40 or 50 years ago so I have a couple of questions.....
1 ... Can I just slot in any old DVD-RW or combo drive, even one out of a windows machine or does it have to be a Mac specific drive?
2 ... If it just HAS to be an external drive, is there some kind of limitation as to what drives these old eMacs can take? Is that a factor on an internal drive also?
Cheers,
Steve
Before the week is out I will have an old G4 eMac to play with. It's the 800 version. I've sorted out extra RAM for it but the eMac only has a CD reader drive. My options are to buy an external DVD -/+ RW or even a dvd player CD-RW combo and just plug it in when needed OR, and this is what I would prefer for neatness, take the olod CD drive out and replace it with a better drive unit.
I'm fairly confident that I can follow instructions on how to do the actual swap but my brain isn't what it used to be 40 or 50 years ago so I have a couple of questions.....
1 ... Can I just slot in any old DVD-RW or combo drive, even one out of a windows machine or does it have to be a Mac specific drive?
2 ... If it just HAS to be an external drive, is there some kind of limitation as to what drives these old eMacs can take? Is that a factor on an internal drive also?
Cheers,
Steve