Burgertrench
Active member
I have a black Performa 5400 Directors edition, which after a painful teardown, thorough clean and recap, was in working condition. However part way through installing the OS from a CD ROM, it seems the CD ROM drive (Matsushita CR-508-C) fried itself. No lights, won't open the tray. I removed it and cleaned the contacts, no luck. I fitted the drive in to a known good external SCSI enclosure, and it blew the enclosure fuse immediately upon power up.
I've remove the main board from the CD ROM, and don't see anything obvious wrong under a magnifier, though I'm not a technician by any stretch.
Unless anyone has some bright on how I can restore the drive, I'm now looking at replacing it. Because the Performa uses special adaptors plugged in to the SCSI and power sockets on the CD ROM drive which must align with the edge connector inside the chassis, I'm concerned I might be limited on what model drives can be fitted. Does anyone know what other drive models I can use? Or even if it's possible to fit a SCSI DVD drive?
I've remove the main board from the CD ROM, and don't see anything obvious wrong under a magnifier, though I'm not a technician by any stretch.
Unless anyone has some bright on how I can restore the drive, I'm now looking at replacing it. Because the Performa uses special adaptors plugged in to the SCSI and power sockets on the CD ROM drive which must align with the edge connector inside the chassis, I'm concerned I might be limited on what model drives can be fitted. Does anyone know what other drive models I can use? Or even if it's possible to fit a SCSI DVD drive?