I just wanted to let you know that would work fine I did that with my tower and Its freaking awesome!! I posted my results on xlr8yourmac.com heres the link to the page regarding superdrive upgrades to non superdrive G4's. Heres one word of advice though don't do this upgrade unless you don't care about Apple Care lol. Heres the results I put up on Xlr8yourmac.com:
Reviewer's Name: Dan Ross
Date Submitted: 10/6/2001
Drive Type: DVD-R DVD Recorder
Drive Interface: IDE
Drive Brand: Pioneer
Drive Model Number: Apple OEM Part aka (DVR-A03)
Drive Size: N/A
Driver Used: Apple Standard
Mac Model: Apple G4 Dual CPU
Mac OS Version: OS X and 9.2.2
Reader Comments: I just recently added an Apple Super Drive to my computer Dual 533 with Radeon Card (with built-in encoding for DVD-R) It took about an hour to install the drive due to the fact that it wasn't designed for my tower but instead the 733. The part came in an Apple OEM box and everything ( I ordered it from a local Dealer won't mention names on this site)
My first DVD took roughly a half an hour to encode and burn and and have completed since then i have gone on to make over 25 DVD's of my films from flim school and some home movies.
I got iDVD from the same retailer as they were installing my drive they were wanting to see if this would be a selling point for someone in my situation that had a Dual with out DVD drive. It works and I just wanted to pass this along!
Mike Comments: Thanks. There were some reports of iDVD not installing on pre-DA models in the past (some said it did - but it would not install on mine - perhaps looking for the superdrive.) BTW - All the Superdrives I have seen are reported by Apple System profiler as "Pioneer DVR-103" drives vs AO3 (even the retail models I hear). What is the firmware of your drive? (ASP shows this as the drive revision - last QS superdrive I saw was v1.44)
The Digital Audio G4/733s (Jan. 2001) have a similar CD housing as the earlier G4/AGP models ( I have worked on both) - but the Quicksilver (summer 2001) models have a different CD mouting scheme.
The main
www.xlr8yourmac.com IDE articles page, CD/DVD/CDRW section has an install guide for several macs including G4/AGP systems (but not the Quicksilver G4 models - Apple's CIP pages cover that)
Have you noticed how slow the Superdrive seems at CDROM reading/copying and audio extraction? Very slow in my experience with two models, even in a DA G4/733. (in OS 9 at least -
OS X 10.1's caching makes it seem much better) - but OS 9 seems very very slow with the Superdrive for installs, copying files, etc