I'm setting up a spare parts box for a friend's child and I am having a strange problem. The computer has no IDE connections, so I hooked up an IDE controller card in order to use an IDE DVD drive.

I came downstairs this morning only to see that my computer had at some point during the night rebooted, and now was stuck at the dreaded "No boot disk available" or whatever message.<BR><BR>I shut ...

We are seeking confirmation of an odd report from MacFixIt reader J. Dugan, who reports that the presence of an internal Maxtor IDE drive was the culprit behind damaged DVDs. "I have a Power Mac G4 ...