Adding a 2nd opptical drive to Quicksilver

[Peyote]

I've had my quicksilver for a couple of years now, and am looking to upgrade it to a DVD-R drive. I ordered it with a zip drive, which is all but useless these days. Are there any kits or suppliers for parts, for converting the lower zip drive bay into an Optical drive bay, with a flip down door in the same style as the top flip down door? If possible, I'd like to have two drives in there.

 

[Peyote]

Nevermind...I've since found some articles about this mod...not an easy one.


I think I'll just convert my zip drive opening into a plate with a USB 2.0 and headphone port. seems much easier.

 

[bumfilter]

Care to share some of the links? You may have found something that I didn't!

 

[Peyote]

The best solution hack I've found is here:

http://www.macfora.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2429&hl=


But it's just too much work for just being able to hold onto my apple CDRW drive. Not to mention the fact that I can't seem to find a blank QS bezel anywhere...and the door to my drive would be a zip drive door.

So what I'll do is buy a USB 2.0 cable that has a female end with mounting tabs, mount that to a plate in the zip drive opening, and plug the other end into the internal port on my USB 2 card. Then I just have to figure out how to hook up a headphone jack in the front as well. But within a couple of weeks I'm going to buy a clear grille cover for the speaker hole, chunk the speaker, and put a red cathode tube inside. *evil mac*