Re: Replacement DVD Drive for Pismo

[Will Schoumaker]

From: Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:31:21 +0100
snips taken
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
First off you may be able to fix your DVD drive. If the laser reader 
gets dust on it the drive will run as yours does but won't be able to 
read the data on the disk. You can try either a CD lens cleaner disk or 
one of those small cans of compressed air sold for camera lens etc. 
This has fixed many drives thought dead.
	I have a Pioneer DVD RW 105(A05) drive which I put in a Firewire case. 
ADS Pyro brand never had any problem with this combo. It is seen as an 
Apple Super drive by both my desktop and Pismo machines. With Jaguar I 
needed some hacks for everything to work. Panther everything works with 
no hacks on my Apple desktop. Even iDVD and DVD player work fine. best 
of luck. Will S

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