Laptop CDROM drive in a 3000D

[Darrin]

I had been thinking about doing that myself once upon a time.  I have 2 floppy drives in my A3000 and a slimline laptop drive would fit easily above them with just a small rectangle cut out for the drive.

The hardest part would have been locating the adapter to convert the laptop sytle IDE connecter back to a 2.5" or 3.5" IDE cable for connection to my Bhudda.

An even easier option now would be to buy a slimline drive in a thin external case with a USB interface and run this to that new USB2.0 card that was just released.

[Darrin]

Darth_X wrote:
Are you guys destroying the beautiful A3000 bezel to put in a DVD drive? OMG!
 :-o

I'd hardly describe the A3000 as beautiful.  ;-)

It's not a hard job (3 cuts), and if done with the correct tools then non-Amiga users seeing it will probably think the case was designed that way.

[Darrin]

miles wrote:
I used to have a laptop drive in my desktop case above the fdd like you are planning, just had to cut out a space for it and make a small metal adapter to hold it firmly in place.  It was a older SCSI 2x so no interface problem there.

Metal adapter?!  Real Amigans would use chewing gun, glue and duct tape!  :pissed:

 :lol: