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optical drive requirements
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amagab
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Aug 7, 2007, 02:35 PM
 
Can any optical drive be put in a Powermac G5? If not, what are the requirements. I'm looking to get a replacement.

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Aug 7, 2007, 05:49 PM
 
Any half-height (about 1.75" tall) 5.25" optical drive should work in the PowerMac. Some of the newer drives are SATA instead of ATA (IDE), so you'd need to run a SATA cable from one of the 2 available ports on the motherboard (meaning you can only have 1 hard drive installed) over to the drive bay instead of reusing the ATA cable that Apple already ran for you.
     
   
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