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installing Blu Ray as second optical drive – need extender cable?
(feel free to move this to a different forum if need be)
My Pioneer BDR-205BK came today. Installed into the computer under the original Super Drive was quick and easy, but not sure if i need to install the extender cables. The instructions that came with it labeled “Mac Pro (Early 2009) SATA Optical Drive” were for simply putting the drive in as a second drive, using the existing cables that are in the computer.
A secondary booklet entitled, “Mac Pro SATA Optical Drive” differentiated between a Mac Pro 667 MHz system (Aug 2006 – Jan 2008), and a Mac Pro 800 MHz system (after Jan 2008) talked about adding the red extender SATA cable…but isn’t that already part of the black cable that is plugged into the current SuperDrive, with an identical additional one waiting for a drive in the lower bay? Slightly confusing…
Also, once installed properly, how to differentiate between the two drives with the “eject” key?
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-Core
3 GB RAM
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I have an older Mac Pro (quad 2.66)…the optical bays do not have SATA, they use ATAPI. You would use the extender cable to connect to the extra SATA port on the motherboard instead.
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