cMP optical drive cable

[jbarley]

Seems I've fallen victim to a fairly common problem of damaging the IDE drive cable of my MacPro3,1.
Just finished the replacement with a cable from eBay, so I would strongly suggest to anyone to be very careful when removing-replacing the optical drive cage on your cMP.
At no time did I feel I was being rough or forcing this cage back in, yet I still managed to pinch and destroy several wires rendering the cable unusable.

 

[CapnDavey]

been there did that with my MDD G4 when it was new I added a pioneer DVD burner hosed the cable Apple sent me a new one for free

 

[orph]

you can also just harvest the spare eSATA ports for a newer drive ^^

 

[jbarley]

you can also just harvest the spare eSATA ports for a newer drive ^^

I assume you are referring to the 2 onboard Sata ports #5 and 6, which in my MP are already spoken for.