[Blue Flame]

hey guys/gals,

i'm trying to install a LG GCE-8523B CD-RW drive in second bay of my Dual 1.25Ghz G4 and I can't get the computer to recognize it. I'm running OS X 10.2.8 and i've tried setting the LG drive to master, slave, and cable select and nothing doing.

Anyone have any ideas? Is there a compatability problem with LG drives and G4's?

[Blue Flame]

nobody has any idea?

[SSharon]

I have a dual 1ghz MDD and I just bought the 52x Lite-On drive and I love it. Now for some useful details . . . so I have it on cable select in the lower bay, I'm running 10.2.4 and with just that it can read anything and is recognized by everything (finder, toast, itunes) to get full burn support I found a hacked apple driver at xlr8yourmac.com and now it works. I did a real fast search at
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drived....drivedb.lasso
and didn't see your drive but there may be something similar that will give you a driver.

good luck, hope this helps.

[Blue Flame]

ya i found that site, found a hacked driver for an older version of the drive. So you have yours on cable select? Are you running a superdrive in the first bay (top)? Maybe what i'll do is remove the superdrive and set the LG to master and see if that makes a difference. If not i might try the Lite-On and see if that works.

Thanks for the info

[SSharon]

yea I have the stock superdrive in the upper bay and my lite-on below it (on cable select, I didn't change anything else). xlr8yourmac had some good pointers and tips as well as that hacked driver. btw if you do get the liteon, I got mine from newegg.com in 2 days with free shipping.

[Blue Flame]

cool thanks for the info, i'm gonna work on this a bit later on in the week. i think i might just try to go back to the lite-on and see what happens. I've tried cable select with the LG drive and that didn't work so well see.

thanks for the help

[Blue Flame]

Another question for y'all,

I've been doin some research on Xlr8yourmac.com and they were talking about setting the drive to cable select. My question is, how should the superdrive be set? the pins look different than on the LG cd-rw i have. I have no problem with setting master/slave/cs etc on the cd-rw but how do you do that on the superdrive? the pins look like:

: : : : :

and the selector is on the middle one. Should this remain the same when i install the second drive or do i have to change anything?

[SSharon]

My superdrive wasn't labeled telling me which jumper settings meant what so I just left them, on master I guess. Although I'm sure one of those apple pdf's that tells you how to install optical drives tells you.