Q: iMac G3 hard drive not being detected
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Apr 6, 2014 9:05 AMby pattifromoak park,ok i fixed the problem but it was hard. Since this model was the super cheap one, without firewire, i took the cd rom drive out and than i cut 10 pins off of the 50 pin cd rom connector. I than put in a LG CD-ROM drive and for power put my old desktop to supply power to the CD-ROM drive. I than put in my OS 9 disc and everything works great
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by rccharles,Apr 6, 2014 10:55 AM
rccharles
Apr 6, 2014 10:55 AM
in response to pattifromoak park
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Classic Mac OSThis is great success.
I second the request for a picture. Any description of what you did would be helpful. Pin outs extra.
My understanding is that the cd rom drive is a laptop cdrom drive.
Robert
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Sep 5, 2014 9:38 PMby pattifromoak park,Here we go. The CD-ROM drive I connected to it was just a really old IDE Desktop CD-ROM drive. the connector for the hard drive to the mother board is 40 pins. The other connection that is meant for the CD-ROM drive that shares the same wire is 50 pins. I decided to cut off 10 of the pins, and plug a regular IDE CD-ROM drive into my newly modded cable. I had to put the machine upside down while running since the CD-ROM drive was a little large. If you are still interested in pictures after what 4 months I will gladly upload them.
