From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikael=20Bystr=F6m?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:33:11 +0200
Jeff, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I replaced my TiBook DVD drive with a combo drive, and later upgraded that to a faster model.
Did you also need to replace the cable? Did it perhaps come with the combo?
Dan had a really good description earlier......
I originally ordered a combo upgrade from Macresq, which comes in the proper bracket and with the proper cable. It never worked correctly for me, as it wouldn't spit out the discs properly when it was installed in the PB. It would work fine when bench testing, but when the Tibook case was closed it jammed the eject. Somewhere around that time I had back surgery, and never got things squared away with Macresq and they finally wouldn't take the drive back. That model was a Matshita CW-8121. So I ordered a CW-8122 and switched the bracket and cable and now I have a faster combo drive than the Apple-supplied unit. Nice thing is it's still listed as Apple Supported/Shipped in ASP. The end of the story is that I put the 8121 into a Pismo carrier and it still hung up. Turns out there was a big foam sticker on top of the drive that was causing the problems - it squeezed the drive together when the bottom cover was on. So now I have the faster drive in the Tibook and a friend has a cool slot loading Pismo.
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