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powermac g3 blue&white dvd drive.....
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: UK
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hi
Will any dvd drive work in a powermac g3 (blue&white)
or does it have to be an Apple one?
I want to be able to boot from OSX CD
rich
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PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8GZ, 2GB RAM, 150 & 300 GB Internal Hard Drives, AGP Geoforce 5200 64MB Graphics Card, Superdrive.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Any Apple branded DVD drive will work. Any non-apple one is potentially a gamble. They will all read DVDs under OS X, but not all are necessarily bootable.
You should be ok with a Sony or Pioneer drive, but again, no guarantee unless its Apple branded.
If you go for a burner, any of the Pioneer DVR-1XX drives should be ok.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I had replaced the Apple cd-drive inside my B&W G3 with a DVD combo drive; System Profiler & Toast list it as HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B, which is either a LG or a Hitachi. Boots Mac OS X Tiger and even Mac OS 9.2.1
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Im sure there are others but here is one I know works. Its in my B&W G3 right now. I used it to up to Tiger from a retail dvd. About $35 at Newegg.com
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-118L
An LG I had previously worked ok to read and write but wouldnt boot a mac or pc either one its now in an external
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I would choose a Pioneer before anything else.
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