Replacing the zip drive with the dvd-ram

I've replaced the built in DVD-RAM with DVD burner.
I have a zip drive too. Can I to replace the zip drive with the DVD-RAM?
Thanks

Hi, mikmik -
Unless your G4 is a G4 MDD model, doing that is not easy at all.
The bay for the Zip drive on all G4's earlier than an MDD model is considerably smaller than a standard drive bay, which is what an optical drive needs.
Open your case and take a look at the relative sizes of the upper optical drive bay and the lower Zip drive bay.
In order to put replace the Zip drive with an optical drive you would need to do a fair amount of surgery on the frame. It has been done; here's a pictorial step-by-step by one fellow who did that to a B&W G3 -
http://www.shanescot.com/photos/BW_mod/
The work needed on a G4 would be very similar to that.

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