The nice thing about those iMacs is they came with firewire. If you want to add a drive it would be faster and cheaper to buy an external case. You can even boot off of it, and it would run faster than the onboard ata. You also wouldn't have the heat problems, or the hard drive limits.
-Jonas On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Clark Martin<cm...@sonic.net> wrote: > > Po-en Tsai wrote: >> Hello Listers, >> >> I have an iMac G3 slot load, and I would like to put in another HDD (2 >> in total). There is quite alot of spare space in the drive mount. I >> would rather not remove the CD rom. >> >> Do you think it would be possible? Without over-heating obviously. > > This question would be better asked on the iMac list. > > Funny, I just pulled the optical drive from a G3 iMac. There isn't > enough room there. Part of the drive hangs over the logic board. A > drive in your "spare space" would conflict with the logic board. Also, > there is no available drive interface. If you pulled the optical there > MIGHT be enough space. You'd need to make your own IDE cable as the > logic board connector is 44 pins, as is the optical drive connector. > > Much simpler (and possible) to put a single larger drive in. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
