Powermac G4 optical drive upgrade options

Hi all,

I have just acquired a powermac g4 and I was wondering about upgrades. I have 2x 256MB PC100 168-pin DIMMS to put in later, but I wanted to upgrade the DVD-ROM to a burner. I'm not sure exactly which model it is, but it has the ADC connector, so I presume it is at least the AGP model. It has OS X 10.2.

I know the Pioneer DVR-109 is supposed to be supported as a superdrive, but I wondered about other potential models. I know about patchburn, but it would be nice to have natively supported drive. The DVR-110 and DVR-111 appear to be more commonly available, so I wondered if those are similarly supported.

Thanks,

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C

checkout the drive compatability database at www.xlr8yourmac.com

Pioneer's DVR drives are generally a good choice, and mostly are supported as Superdrive out of the box. If not, you can easily make them supported by using Patchburn.

Also, before throwing in the PC-100 memory, you need to make sure which model of PowerMac you have, as some of the later had a 133MHz bus, and won't boot with PC-100 memory.

Check on www.lowendmac.com they have a complete listing of every Mac that ever existed, with full specs.

Avalon said:

Also, before throwing in the PC-100 memory, you need to make sure which model of PowerMac you have, as some of the later had a 133MHz bus, and won't boot with PC-100 memory.

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The system profiler shows that PC-100 SDRAM is installed at the moment, so I'm unless some of the older macs lied on this point, it should be OK ;-)

What model is it? What CPU and CPU Speed does System Profiler show?

I agree with Jhelm, check out that database on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/.