Re: Internal SuperDrive to External?

[lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)]

In article <1993Jul6.163616.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> 11hlayton@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Aviator Margalis Tast'annin) writes:
>
>Is there any way to convert an internal SuperDrive to an external one?  Can I 
>switch a 800k external Platinum Apple Drive with an internal SuperDrive?
>
>Anyone have any luck doing this?  
>
>Thanks for your time & help!
 

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     |es, it's possible, and I've done it.  You can even pull the
 mechanism out of a white UniDisk 3.5 and slap the SuperDrive
 mechanism in there and it will work fine.  Just make sure you pull
 everything, including the daughterboard, out of the UniDisk 3.5.
 (You may note that the connector between the daughterboard and the
 drive mechanism in a UniDisk 3.5 is the same as between the cable
 and the daughterboard.  This may bring up the question of whether
 you can simply plug the cable right into the drive mechanism to
 get a regular "dumb" Apple 3.5 Drive.  Well, don't try it, you
 can't.)


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