Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 22/08/17 00:06, "Roger Hodge" ha scritto: > Nope, Mine uses ATA drive for the dvd drive... :) Yep. IIRC, G5s had SATA interface for the hard drives, and ATA for the optical drive(s). -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Roger Hodge
Nope, Mine uses ATA drive for the dvd drive... :) On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Roger Hodge wrote: I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great! LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R G5’s use SATA drives and opti

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread William Tomcanin
Thanks, Bruce. I am about to purchase an LG drive from OWC (with an SATA-IDE/ATAPI converter). I realize that I will likely loose write capability, but I think that is a function of the adapter that is coming with the product. I'm in the process of researching other adapters that might allow me

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Roger Hodge wrote: > > I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great! > > LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R G5’s use SATA drives and optical drives. QS systems use ATA. Different interface. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Col

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Roger Hodge
I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great! LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 21, 2017, at 6:27 AM, William Tomcanin wrote: Hello everyone, My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Aug 21, 2017, at 6:27 AM, William Tomcanin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed completely. I > removed it took it apart, cleaned it which brought it back to life for about > one day. Today it refuses to read anything! > > Time to rep

Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread William Tomcanin
Hello everyone, My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed completely. I removed it took it apart, cleaned it which brought it back to life for about one day. Today it refuses to read anything! Time to replace it and I am wondering what folks are using these days. I've been to th