Don't know about replacing the dvd drive, but there are people out there who just bought really long IDE/power extension cables and ran the ribbon out the side of their case (using…

This may not be helpful to you yet, but Toshiba has recently released a CDRW/DVD-ROM combo drive. Unfortunately, it's PC-only and not slot-loading. However, according to their we…

Hi, I knew of the existance of the cd-rw/dvd combo of toshiba. Appearantly Steve must have contacted toshiba to tell them about my idea I posted on the apple imac support pages, a…

Very impressive research! Gee, a slot-loading cdrw/dvd would be a great drive to put in all of Apple's desktop machines. I hope they do it.

thanks..... Now only hope and wait .. (but not to long)

Ok, so these Toshiba drives do in fact work on Macs? The thing is I can understand them working with the IDE/ATA interface on macs, its just the fact you'd need drivers to run the …

Go to http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drived....drivedb.lasso and check for yourself. People who are very content...!!!!!!

Regarding the deal at DealNN: Maxtor DiamondMax 30.0GB Hard Drive Kit Item No. 428385 Add this 3 1/2" EIDE hard drive to your computer and upgrade it for high performance. With …

EIDE = ATA Any questions?

yeah, I got one... I've yet to write assembly to control IDE ports/HDs...and wondering if ATA is a subset of IDE or what? else why would they just randomly create the "ATA interfac…

Thanks for the quick reply. Since you seem to be on the ball here I'll throw you another question: will Apple's software controller be able to run the Maxtor or will I have to buy …

Just use Drive Setup to format the hard drive when you get it. However, make sure you set it to "slave." Having two "masters" on an ATA chain is not pretty, trust me.

gelly, didn't you know computers are supposed to be confusing? That's why Apple came along... although we had a heck of a time repairing some severely fragged disks today. Crimin…

more less related question...does DMA stand for Direct Memory Access?

Probably.

The Maxtor 30 gig works like a charm, using it right now in my B&W tower,

If there is a difference, it's that ATA was the expansion designed to support removeable media (the one that did not was called ATdisk. Both of them came with the PC AT.). By the w…

Thanks for all your help. I did go ahead and buy, then install the drive. Works beautifully. The transfer rate between drives is jaw dropping and I haven't dropped a frame in FCP y…

As Stockholm company named Xtrem is planning to sell 1 GHz Macs. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,38101,00.html As the linked story explaines, they plan on clocking facto…

old news, and already posted

I so humbly beg the wlonh's forgiveness. feel free to delete this post or move it to the Pet Peeves forum. Fletch

hey sorry for the brief reply, i meant no offense but rather was busy at the time... may i humbly (without sarcasm) suggest that replies/responses be made here: http://forums.ma…

We have an old Performa 575 laying around (33 MHz, 36 MB RAM, 250 MB HD, etc.) and were wondering if there was a way to upgrade it to a 601 or 603 PPC AND upgrade the HD to somewhe…

I haven't heard of any specific ones for this series of computer but there maybe some around somewhere. The thing is I don't think it would be very cost effective. Even around seco…

I did find some prices for an upgrade and it was outrageous!! $500 some odd dollars to take me to a 603 75 MHz! I think a rev B would be a much better choice. Thanks.