Superdrive dying...Any suggestions???
Well, the superdrive on my dual 1.25 MDD is dying as it sometimes can't read the disc I put in and sometimes it does...
I'm thinking of replacing it and wanted to get the opinions/suggestions of those who have replaced theirs and what you replaced it with...
I was on OWC and saw the Samsung DVD 22x and the Pioneer-118...
Any thoughts?
Can the Powermac G4 MDD Dual 1.25 handle two of those?
I believe so, there's a plate below the top one, not sure about mounting.
BluRay drives are SATA only, but it is possible to get PATA to SATA adapters...
http://www.satacables.com/html/satato_ideadapter.html
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