Optical drives In Mac Pro case

[guilfoya]

Hello all,

I have been sort of lurking this site on and off reading in and out. I've been wanting to do a mac pro case for a while now, So last week I bought new one off of ebay with everything included minus electronics, logic board etc, etc.. I actually got two memory riser cards though, which I may sell..

So anyway The problem..

Well, I tried my CD rom I have a standard HP DVD-RW (bought form best buy) Cracked off the face plate, and tray face plate, mounted the cd rom drive. I gave it some power to test it, and opps!

It gets stuck on the metal slide down door on the way back in (it's fine on the way out). It seems it is very close to the bottom of the slot when it comes out.. Has anyone ever had this problem?!

Does anyone know of a good drive, or is mine just a misfit?

I looked up the apple drives, and saw some ridiculous prices. Minus the IDE g5 drives which are like 25 bucks on ebay, but i'm trying to avoid IDE

[riverrun]

I have a mac pro case (early 2009 I think) and the optical drive carrier. my LG combo drive fits fine with the tray face removed.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136183

[aquamac]

I have used these in G5 cases and also the mac pro case:

www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-075-PO

You could try a washer under the 4 fixing points to lift the drive.

[koyaanisqatsi]

hi there aquamac, does that pioneer drive from overclockers work in a standard macpro (1.1) machine do you know?