re ibook g4's combo drive..

[chelseayr]

its a matshita cw-8124 as per the system profiler..
(and interesting enough while writing this I found out that the mini g4 used the same drive at at least one point?)

just curious if it could had been simply switched with another slot-loaded slim drive or is there any particular software-related limit to that?

as it is now its quite noisy and probably is close to premature failure in a manner speaking, so I was just curious what to make a possible buyer be able to expect when I resell this ibook as it currently was you know?

 

[Byrd]

Replace with a similar era Panasonic slot load drive, no limits

 

[chelseayr]

mm that does look convenient to find around, thanks. left a note to mention that in my possible list