slot loading disk problem blueberry G3 iMac

I have a Blueberry iMac with a slot loading CD player which no longer works. The CD player does not work; the iMac is done. t have not used in a long time, recently hung.

A few months back, I bought a new MacBook and an external CD/DVD drive from Apple - a Superdrive drive. Since loading on the old iMac slot does not work I thought I could use the external hard drive with it, but instead to aspire the CD and play it, he refuses to accept it.

Is there something simple I can do to make it work?

Probably, the external optical drive does not work because the old iMac only has USB 1.1 ports, which are really slow and cannot have enough power to modern USB devices.  In addition, if the reason for which you need the optical drive is to boot from a Mac OS installation disc, it would be a problem with a Mac PowerPC.  Macs PowerPC usually doesn't start the USB, and although they may start up in FireWire.

What is the question?  What you're trying to do with the iMac?

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