Re: Super Drive Controller

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

: 	I managed to do the very same for $90. The difficult part was 
: locating the controller card, which few people own or are willing to 
: part with. The SuperDrive is fairly common though, especially if you
: search for an internal model (look among Mac users) and slide it into
: an older 800K drive enclosure. Searching through Mac newsgroups I
: was able to eventually find a mechanism at 1/3rd it's average cost.

The drive mechs are all over the place, and getting cheaper since new Macs
don't use them. I just got a never used, still sealed replacement part from
a place on AOL for $75. I put it in my Q700 and hand-me-downed its old drive
to my SE/30 nee SE to replace its 800K drive.

: 	The upgrade lacks the yellow r/w LED and "FDHD" printing on 
: front (note only some have this) but that's only a minor cosmetic 
: difference. Of course if someone out there has a spare yellow 3.5 
: drive LED or an 'FDHD' sticker for a Mac II/SE upgrade... :)

I've never seen a real live external superdrive, I expect that these aren't
overly common.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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