Swapping the CD-RW for a SuperDrive in an eMac

SuperDrive swap

Hi, Today I did just the swap your thinking about. I installed a Pioneer P109. If you Google "Replacing an eMac optical drive", the first link will have instructions to do the job. I can play a CD, but can't get iDVD to recognize the superdrive. The instruction refer to "Private Frameworks" to solve this issue. I have been unable to make this work, so far. I'm here to find a solution if possible. Good luck!

 

www.macssales.com probably even has a QT video showing the whole procedure.

 

Superdrive info

I tried macsales (one- s) but no luck, however they do have a required patch for Mac application. LOL

 

Oh, I forgot.

You will need to trim of about 1/8 th of an inch of the bottom of the drawer front. It lifts off easily. If you don't, the drawer will catch on the door on closing. I used 2 grits of sandpaper. The drive you remove will have been trimmed, so you can see how much is required.

 

hi, you may also try using Patchburn III to help with iDVD as a friend replaced his with a new DVD drive and it works fine.

 

I replaced the CD-ROM drive that came in my eMac with an NEC DVD-RW drive, and it works perfectly.

 

I installed a Pioneer 109 in my eMac 700 3 weeks ago.Patchburn worked fine, but I couldn't play DVD's. I had to run the Panther CD's to install IDVD. Works fine now.Last week I replaced the orig.HD with a WesternDigital 250Gig. I put it in an ext.FireWire enclosureand ran CCC- works fine. . .

 

I'm thinking that my 700 mhz eMac is too early a model and just doesn't have the required extension for the DVD player. (I looked for it) I can use Toast to successfully for copying although I haven't tried to burn one yet. I have to buy some DVD-Rs I just can't watch pre recorded movies. This may be a fatal flaw with my plan

 

Thanks folks, I installed Patchburn3 and DVD player, but no luck so far. I found out yesterday that my son installed a superdrive in his G4 Power Mac and is having the same problem. Funny coincidence, not a funny problem!