From: Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Replacement DVD Drive for Pismo Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:31:21 +0100
The DVD drive on my daughter's Pismo is showing signs of failure - about 50% of the time it won't read a CD when it's put into the drive. The drive whirrs but it's obviously not finding the directory header on the disk because after while the spinning stops, and no CD icon appears on the desktop. However, checking System Profiler itself shows the DVD drive there.
I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand via eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an external firewire optical drive. I believe LaCie do one (several?). Has anyone got any experience of running an external firewire DVD drive on an older PB? - Pismo or Lombard via a firewire port in a card?
Tom Burke
I had an external FW combo drive that I hooked up to a Pismo....worked fine, including playing DVD's. It would not play on a Lombard with the 333mhz (no on-board decoding). Buying an external drive would probably be about the same price as replacing the internal with a combo drive via ebay, although you do gain the convenience of moving it from one machine to another.
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