Check the system profiler and see if it is an LG drive...I had one in this Pismo and one day back in July, it suddenly stopped mounting DVD's but did mount CD's...Called A/C and they tried firmware update etc...no joy there so a kind tech sent me a replacement..also an LG..Now, after playing only about 12 DVD's since mid July, this one is doing the exact same thing...It whirrs and stops ..What a POS!!! I do have an external LaCie burner (Pioneer 106-D) that works great but I need the internal for the Pismo. I will try the air can and see if that works...If I do have to get another drive, Iunderstand that the Matsushita's are much better..However I am leery of trying to tear the case apart to put a new drive inside of the current carrier...If you have any success, please let us know...I will do likewise...
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
Regards,
Mike K
-- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
---------------------------------------------------------------
The Think Different Store
http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
