Chris,
I bought an external case (firewire,usb) 50 bucks or less and then
bought a standard internal IDE/ATA
cd-r 52x16x24 at compusa or staples for about 40 or 50 bucks, look for
sales. Put them together, plug it into your pismo and there you have an
external burner. It works great. I even have a usb only cd-r external
box that I use all the time. I use toast 5.0 or 5.2 lite or titanium
for the program. Do not forget to install the driver (toast) first.
Also great for an external HD use. Good Luck.
On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:03 PM, chris wrote:
I'm looking to change the DVD drive in my Pismo to one that can burn
CDs.
I don't want to lose the DVD reading abilities however.
I checked around, and such drives exist, but they are VERY expensive.
However, I've heard that the drives themselves are a standard laptop
drive sitting in the shell. In checking for generic laptop drives that
support DVD reading and CD writing, they seem to be much more
affordable
(tons on ebay pulled from Dells and the likes).
Has anyone done this? Bought a drive and swapped the internals into the
shell for the Pismo? Does it work? Do you lose the ability to play DVDs
when you do that?
Any other options out there to get CD writing without spending a
fortune
and without needing to carry an external drive?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
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