IDE positioning is one of the places my limited hardware knowledge (just enough to be dangerous!) fails, but that doesn't sound particularly bad. I couldn't even get two DVD-type drives installed on my computer - there was a cable out of the back of the original drive besides the ribbon, and I didn't see any way to chain it together or anything. I dimly recall that that was sound-related but I'm not sure anymore.
The metal tracks I was thinking of clipped onto the side of the drive itself, then slotted into existing tracks in the case. They're the bits with the extended metal parts that you can squeeze to remove the drive from its bay.
As I recall, I used the power of metal fatigue to remove a plate to insert the drive. Then kicked myself when I found out that I had to take out the old DVD drive.
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Date: 2003-11-06 01:01 pm (UTC)The metal tracks I was thinking of clipped onto the side of the drive itself, then slotted into existing tracks in the case. They're the bits with the extended metal parts that you can squeeze to remove the drive from its bay.
As I recall, I used the power of metal fatigue to remove a plate to insert the drive. Then kicked myself when I found out that I had to take out the old DVD drive.