Power Mac G5 Ultra ATA/100 optical drive

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My internal Superdrive died in my 2004 Power Mac Dual 2.0 GHz, I've already checked with the sales dept. at OWC and they can't help me. I wanted to upgrade the optical drive to a Lightscribe DVD burner, but I've hit the wall.

I'm thinking about using an adapter from my IDE Ultra ATA/100 connector on my Mother Board or is it Daughter Board? The adapter supposedly converts my IDE to SATA, so theoretically I could use a off the shelf DVD burner that supports LightScribe?????

StarTechcom IDE to SATA Adapter Converter by Office Depot

Here's the problem on my G5 I have 39 male pins and every adapter I've checked has 40 female pin slots. Will this be a problem?
 
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Frosty1962 said:
My internal Superdrive died in my 2004 Power Mac Dual 2.0 GHz, I've already checked with the sales dept. at OWC and they can't help me. I wanted to upgrade the optical drive to a Lightscribe DVD burner, but I've hit the wall.

I'm thinking about using an adapter from my IDE Ultra ATA/100 connector on my Mother Board or is it Daughter Board? The adapter supposedly converts my IDE to SATA, so theoretically I could use a off the shelf DVD burner that supports LightScribe?????

StarTechcom IDE to SATA Adapter Converter by Office Depot

Here's the problem on my G5 I have 39 male pins and every adapter I've checked has 40 female pin slots. Will this be a problem?
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If your not using you second HDD slot why don't you just run a SATA cable from it's port to the optical. If you are IMHO and SI PCI/PCIX SATA card would be a better option. Do the above and run your second drive from the SATA card. The added benefit is that you'll have 3 or so new SATA ports. You can put drives in front of the front fans.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002C0Y5X4/?tag=macforums0e4-20

This is the one I use.
 
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Optical drive on G5 PowerPC

Germany_chris said:
If your not using you second HDD slot why don't you just run a SATA cable from it's port to the optical. If you are IMHO and SI PCI/PCIX SATA card would be a better option. Do the above and run your second drive from the SATA card. The added benefit is that you'll have 3 or so new SATA ports. You can put drives in front of the front fans.

Amazon.com: Syba SATA II PCI-X 4 Ports Host Raid Controller Card: Electronics

This is the one I use.
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Thank you for the reply and the link;) I am using the second SATA port for an additional HDD, LOL! I thought about that too. I had a good feeling there was someone that was in the same perdicament as myself. I like the option you suggested much better than my original thought, it looks like a better quality piece of equipment.

Thank you again for the link:)

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Frosty
 

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