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G5 PowerMac DVD Drive dead... replacement?

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deadfrog

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Sep 5, 2004
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Hi,

Seems my DVD drive has died, so looks like I need to get a replacement...
Can anyone suggest a compatible drive?

I have replaced a CD drive on my old G4 once, however, I had to patch it to work and I'd rather not have to do that this time...

Im using a PowerMac G5 Dual processor 2.3, running Tiger...
The current faulty drive is a SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A

Id really appreciate some advice...

Cheers
 
Pickup any IDE (ATA) DVD-+RW drive. It's reasonably easy to replace. I just replaced my original Pioneer DVD-+RW drive to LG DVD-+RW/RAM 16x drive tonight. Only needed some tool to get the stands from the orignal drive bottom off and put them to new one.

Remember to remove the face plate of the new drive. Otherwise it won't fit to open the drive bay.

Some helpfull links for you:
manuals.info.apple.com/en/pmg5_opticaldrive_diy.pdf
http://www.macworld.com/article/60571/2007/10/g5_dual_layer.html
 
I installed a regular Pioneer DVD burner into my G4 PowerMac 2 years ago. With Tiger, I didn't need to install any patches. iDVD worked fine.
 
Any IDE drive will work. You can even put a blu-ray burner in if you wanted to.
 
Ok, well thanks for all your replies...

Last night I took the Pioneer 109 out of my old G4, which was easy enough... then looked at my G5 and couldn't see an easy way to remove the current drive... So will look into that process further, it doesn't appear as obvious as the Mac Pro or G4, but im sure the links and info that you have all provided will direct me in the right way...

Thanks once again...
 
deadfrog said:
Ok, well thanks for all your replies...

Last night I took the Pioneer 109 out of my old G4, which was easy enough... then looked at my G5 and couldn't see an easy way to remove the current drive... So will look into that process further, it doesn't appear as obvious as the Mac Pro or G4, but im sure the links and info that you have all provided will direct me in the right way...

Thanks once again...
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You can find all the manuals and guide from here.
They're official from Apple. Hope they'll help you.

Alternatively if you have your user's manual, refer to page 61
 
Just pick up any DVD-RW off ebay. I got a Pioneer DVR-108 and then flashed it with the latest firmware update and that was fast! And the comment with the Blu-Ray burner, do they even make an ATA/IDE BR drive? I thought they were just SATA? :confused:
 
zmttoxics said:
http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/
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That's very tempting....

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  • [FONT=Arial, Helvetica][SIZE=-1]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Type: Internal[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Interface: EIDE/ATAPI[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Data Buffer: 8 MB[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Loading Method: Power Tray[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Mounting Orientation: Horizontal or Vertical[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Dimensions (W x H x D): 8.25 x 5.75 x 1.63 inches[/FONT]
  • [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Warranty: 1 year
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Sorry, I didn't know they made an IDE BR drive.
 
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