On 1/10/10 8:09 PM, Michael G.M. wrote:
Needing some suggestions or options for stacking HDDs in G3 and G4
PowerMacs that didn't come with the double-stack sleds. If there's any
other ways or options for this other than the sleds (which I'll get
from ebay's otherwise) I'd really, really like to know.
Michael here's what you can do. The tools you need:
2 Broken CD/DVD drives.
Anything that can bond metal together
Something that cuts metal
A drill
Some screws
...you must have an idea of where I'm going with this.
You will remove the internals of the drive. All you'd need is the metal
plates below.
You will find that the bottom metal on the optical drive is larger than
the HD, and also longer.
Place the HD inside the metal, measure it and cut out the parts you
don't need.
You will drill holes on the sides of bottom metal. You may only need one
side of two screws.
Do same with the other bottom plate.
Put them together, use scrap metal to bond them on the side without the
screws.
You would have drilled a hole on one of the bottom metal that matchs
with the original hole in the machine. Screw that now into the G4.
You'd have made yourself a double HD installer.
I understand the need for this because it's hard to have the HDs spread
around the base of a G4...getting that ribbon cable to fit is so much pain.
Goodluck, careful with scrap metal.
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