Imac G3 adaptation?
I have an imac g3 crt 400 mhz just with a cd slot load. I would like to instal a combo drive on it(cdrw-dvd) as I know that drivers for an slot load aare dificult to find and expensive in comparason with the price of those old machines, I am woundering if would be possible to install a normal Ide cdrw/dvd combo drive on it. I opened my imac and it seams to have enought internal space to do an instalation,of course I wold need to cut also a bit of the front panel of the imac, but if I would cut the flex cable that original has 50 pins to use just 40 pins for the ide drive i guess it can work,I have also instale and power extention also to provide energy to the ide drive. the only problem is that I dont know if the ide drive is compatible with the imac, does anybody knows or have done something like that before? As I am not intrested to use a external drive if that works would be great. If the ide is not compatible does anybody know if any other combo slot load from ibook would work?
Thanks
Power Mac G4, Mac OS X (10.3.5)