Just make sure it's a SCSI CD-ROM drive and you're in business. A SCSI device is a SCSI device (my guess is the ribbon connector is even identical). However, taping into your dock's audio is a different story. Your best bet is to run audio cables out of the dock from the CD player to an external source so that finally (unless you have an audio Nubus card) you can have stereo with your Duo! To keep everything internal, however, I would still run the CD audio cables out of the box and then combine them into a mono feed (Radio Shack makes just such a cable) which you then plug back into your dock's sound-in port. Please note that by doing this you are in effect creating a non-linear mix which has the nasty side effect of allowing voltages to cross & back-flow and potentially damage your line-level amp on the CD-ROM. Because the voltages are so low, the novice user probably won't notice for many years, but it ultimately results in distortion as the amp slowly fries. The proper way to do this would be to run the stereo signal through unidirectional resistors first before combining the signals (like if you ran it through a mixer), but I've never seen these outside of a mixer so you might have to build your own. Keep in mind, that this is the professional way to do this. People do it all the time and never notice a loss in quality. Heck Radio Shack even sells adapters for this purpose, even though the engineers should know better (for years you simply reversed "splitters" to do it and now they also re=package them as "combiners" ... oh, well anything to make a buck). While we're on the subject, anybody try to change the direction of the floppy drive so that it points out the front of the machine? I'm still trying to get my HD-20 to logic board floppy connector pinouts so that I can make a special cable so as to use the Duo's external floppy drive with the Dock and be able to place it wherever I need it (my Dock is in an enclosure which makes accessing the side difficult). nick green wrote: > This is probably an old chestnut, and my apologies if it is, but does > anyone have experience of trying to put a CD drive in a Duo Dock? > > They seem to be quite roomy at the back, and with the judicious use of a > hacksaw to provide an access slot on the opposite side to the floppy > drive... > > What do you think? > ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> Dr. Bott LLC | Get a LapBottom with new �GRIPPIER� gripper pads! | http://www.drbott.com/prod/lapbot.html $23.00 Midwest Mac Parts <http://www.midwestmac.com> | After-market parts for Macs. Fix your ticking dock for $59 w/ trade-in of PS. 888-356-1104 PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com
