On Dec 22, 9:57 am, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:
>
>
>
> > What's much more painful is dealing with a similar but worse version
> > of this problem on my Pismo. It's fussy about brands, and probably
> > about DVD-R vs. DVD+R, and probably just plain fussy about homemade
> > DVD's as opposed to DVD's whose data was stamped at the factory. But
> > first, a try with the cleaner disc...
>
> The Pismo's came with LG drives that were legendary for their
> craptasticalness. First sign of trouble is they stop reading DVD's.
>
> There are any number of laptop mechanisms you can use to replace the
> drive.
>
> ONe of the LEM powerbook lists (the gbook list perhaps) just had a
> discussion about this with specific brand mentions.
I've replaced several, using OEM pulls from later PowerBooks, and
never had a problem with booting or burning. Try the swaplist - there
are usually some available.
--V Mabus
> --
> Bruce Johnson
> University of Arizona
> College of Pharmacy
> Information Technology Group
>
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