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Just bought an external LaCie USB/Firewire burner. Works great, but I'd like to put it in one of the bays of my G4-500. I opened the LaCie case, and see that the unit will fit nicely in the G4 bay. Question is, will the connections work? Where/how do I hook up firewire (or USB, ugh) inside the computer? Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing?

Thanks. Rich.

[Zoom]

I don't have experience, but I'll hazard a guess.

My (recent) understanding of drives is that the internal mechanism is most likely EIDE and that it's the case that provides the conversion to FW and USB. Therefore, you should be able to just snap on the internal EIDE connector and go, like a second hard drive. I think.

(I've gotta ask...) Why did you buy an external drive if you wanted it to be internal?

[tonewheel]

I didn't buy it, actually. MIS bought it for the department, which SHOULD have been purchased as an internal. God love the geeks...