Re: emac >super/Combo drive

2004-08-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 08:22, Rod wrote: > The drive is a standard 5 1/4"drive, 1/2 height (the same is what is in every > PC on the planet!). Cool. Thanks for confirming that. I thought it better to ask if there was the risk of someone possibly buying hardware they couldn't use. -- Craig Ringer

Re: emac >super/Combo drive

2004-08-23 Thread Rod
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 6:45 pm, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:27, Phillip McGree wrote: > > The eMac will take pretty much any drive... in theory... > > With optical drives as well as hard drives? I don't have it close to > hand, but I thought the eMac at work had a laptop-style half-

Re: emac >super/Combo drive

2004-08-22 Thread Craig Ringer
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 18:27, Phillip McGree wrote: > The eMac will take pretty much any drive... in theory... With optical drives as well as hard drives? I don't have it close to hand, but I thought the eMac at work had a laptop-style half-height 5 1/4" CD-RW. This could not be replaced with a ful

Re: emac >super/Combo drive

2004-08-21 Thread Phillip McGree
The eMac will take pretty much any drive... in theory... ie it will run the drive, but fitting it is one very complex job. I replaced an eMac hard drive a while ago, there was something like 25-30 screws involved! And if you do try the swap yourself, don't forget to be careful with the powe

emac >super/Combo drive

2004-08-21 Thread tom samson
I have just picked up an emac but it has a CD Rom . I have been in side imacs quite a bit and I want to know what sort of DV drive is correct for an emac -the price of the Pioneer sounds good but is there anything special about type of drive I should consider tom samson