Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:28:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?
The connectors are different, because the PowerBook G3 have TWO Expansion Bays. One for the battery and the other for a CD-Rom (or CD-RW), a DVD Rom (or DVD-RW), a Zip, a second Hard drive, a second Battery, a Floppy, etc. So you can put two batteries at the same time (one on each Bay) so the PowerBook G3 will work for 10 HOURS !! That's why you can't use a "G3" drive on a G4 (there are enclosures to connect the drives as FireWire devices) as internal drives.
This isn't exactly true - the drives themselves are the same, only the connectors are different. A drive can be removed from the expansion bay to be used on a different computer. I replaced my TiBook DVD drive with a combo drive, and later upgraded that to a faster model. Then I took it and put it into a Pismo caddy so a friend now has a cool Pismo slot-loader. I'm working on adapting a SuperDisk caddy so that the slot-loader looks correct.
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