Anyone know about Optiarc 7630A in Macbook Pro 15" 2008 pre-Unibody?

We have to replace, for the 2nd time, the Superdrive in my sister's 15" Macbook Pro 2008. Very unreliable Panasonic drives. I don't have a replacement Panasonic on hand (which may be a good thing!), but I do have a Sony Nec Optiarc slot-loading AD7630A burner. Anyone know if it works in the MBPro? I have to mail it to her and guide her thru the installation, so unfortunately can't test it before sending it. I'm using an iMac at the moment. The drive works in a slim external Firewire case and is recognized by Disk Utility, iTunes and Toast. Seems Mac compatible, so only question would be hardware. Any help GREATLY appreciated. It's pretty urgent..... So thanks in advance.

At 12.7mm high, the drive you're talking about will be too tall to fit in the MBP.

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We have to replace, for the 2nd time, the Superdrive in my sister's 15" Macbook Pro 2008. Very unreliable Panasonic drives. I don't have a replacement Panasonic on hand (which may be a good thing!), but I do have a Sony Nec Optiarc slot-loading AD-7633A burner (not 7630A, as previously mentioned). Anyone know if it works in the MBPro? I have to mail it to her and guide her thru the installation, so unfortunately can't test it before sending it. I'm using an iMac at the moment. The drive works in a slim external Firewire case and is recognized by Disk Utility, iTunes and Toast. Seems Mac compatible, so only question would be hardware. Any help GREATLY appreciated. It's pretty urgent..... So thanks in advance.

In addition to the height issue about which I responded to your first post, there's also the fact that both Opti-Arc drives you've mentioned use PATA, not SATA, interfaces. Neither can be used in any unibody MBP, all of which require SATA optical drives.
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