DVD movies are fine on this one. Retail and DVD-R.
Thanks!
Now I'll pick up a drive off ebay from a Dell or similar and get it
installed in my Pismo.
Thanks to everyone else as well for their advice on this topic.
-chris
http://www.mythtech.net
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chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now I'll pick up a drive off ebay from a Dell or similar and get it
installed in my Pismo.
Why bother with eBay when new superdrives are available from regular
retail channels for (usually) less than going eBay prices?
zipzoomfly has the Pioneer DVR-K05 for under
On Dec 8, 2005, at 2:03 PM, chris wrote:
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?
My Pismo has a slot-loading drive from a newer TiBook in it (I
happened upon the
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
On Dec 8, 2005, at 1:03 PM, chris wrote:
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?
I replaced the dying DVD-ROM in my wife's Pismo with a Samsung combo
drive from a
On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:03 PM, chris wrote:
Has anyone done this? Bought a drive and swapped the internals into
the
shell for the Pismo? Does it work?
Yes, when the original LG CD drive died I replaced it with a Sony DVD/
CD-RW drive, works fine. I never got the faceplate to fit, so
DVD drive, will still
allow you to play DVD movies. If I can get that confirmation, I'll take
the jump and get myself a DVD/CD-RW drive and make the swap.
-chris
http://www.mythtech.net
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On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:40 PM, chris wrote:
Can you still play DVD movies with it? I know Patchburn lets you
make non
Apple burners work with Apple tools, but I wasn't sure if you lost the
ability to play DVDs by going with a 3rd party drive.
DVD movies are fine on this one. Retail and
Hi Gang!
My trusty Sony Spressa USB CD-RW drive doesn't seem to have survived a
recent plane ride in my luggage, and I need another reliable, functional
drive to replace it. If you have one you're no longer using, and can part
with it for a modest price plus postage to Long Beach, NY 11561
vicki Duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi the Lombard is a lot easier to get an internal cdrw for, also if
[snipped stuff]
the fitting is very easy and someone on this list has
a to do page on it ! own up who ever it is.
That'd be me:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html#pismo
dan k
Good timing on this post! I had a CD-RW drive sitting around that came
with my daughter's WinBook. I was thinking about selling it to get a
few bucks. I installed it in place of the CD-ROM drive in my Lombard,
and it works great. It doesn't have a faceplate, though.
Anyone have an extra Lombard
I, like an idiot, wrote:
Ahhh . . . whew! :-D
Hee hee ho ho heh heh hah hah, I can't help but post this, I'm so
excited I _finally_ snagged a Wallstreet CD/RW EBM:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=5171108989
Never mind!
Ooops, it turns out what I bought is NOT what
After reading of the trials of gettin a cd-rw for the Wallstreet I began to
wonder whether the same is available for my Lombard, or would I too be
searching in vain?
How about externals? Does anyone use them and can recommend a particular
brand and model? After watching the agonies of a PC
Hi the Lombard is a lot easier to get an internal cdrw for, also if you
are prepared to change the drive housing's yourself? it is cheap
as-well!. about £40 - £70 on ebay.
I used an external firewire drive that came with a G4 powerbook (i
think it was a fire lite drive) The internals where
Ahhh . . . whew! :-D
Hee hee ho ho heh heh hah hah, I can't help but post this, I'm so
excited I _finally_ snagged a Wallstreet CD/RW EBM:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=5171108989
You can be sure I will be posting very detailed details of its
construction to my
On 08/03/05 17:34, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahhh . . . whew! :-D
Hee hee ho ho heh heh hah hah, I can't help but post this, I'm so
excited I _finally_ snagged a Wallstreet CD/RW EBM:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=5171108989
You can be sure I
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:43:04 -0800, CR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone listed a request on our local Craig's List
for a Wallstreet CD-RW.
Is there such a slide in module for the Wallstreet?
That would be interesting.
Cliff
Check out this article in MacOpinion, written over three years ago
On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 09:43 PM, CR wrote:
Someone listed a request on our local Craig's List
for a Wallstreet CD-RW.
Is there such a slide in module for the Wallstreet?
That would be interesting.
Cliff
What you probably have to do is get a bare mechanism, and attach it to
the carrier
These two fellows talk about a cdrw for a wall street,
I don't know whether they're slide ins or not.
--- Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 09:43 PM, CR wrote:
Someone listed a request on our local Craig's List
for a Wallstreet CD-RW
On Monday, December 27, 2004, at 10:39 AM, PETE wrote:
These two fellows talk about a cdrw for a wall street,
I don't know whether they're slide ins or not.
Wallstreet CD's are indeed removable devices:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43117 Specs for the
14 series.
--
Wherever
, December 26, 2004, at 09:43 PM, CR
wrote:
Someone listed a request on our local Craig's
List
for a Wallstreet CD-RW.
Is there such a slide in module for the
Wallstreet?
That would be interesting.
Cliff
What you probably have to do is get a bare
mechanism, and attach
Really interesting stuff in reference to the CD-RW ?
Raised more questions.
I cannot seem to connect to PowerLogix have they folded?
If not, what is the relative difference between the PowerLogix and
Sonnet Tech ugrade boards?
Sonnet offers their 500MHz upgrades in G4 and G3 units:
Does
Here's a 500MHz G3 upgrade for a Wallstreet, for those
interested. Is it worth it?
--- CR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Really interesting stuff in reference to the CD-RW ?
Raised more questions.
I cannot seem to connect to PowerLogix have they
folded?
If not, what is the relative difference
:
Really interesting stuff in reference to the CD-RW
?
Raised more questions.
I cannot seem to connect to PowerLogix have they
folded?
If not, what is the relative difference between
the
PowerLogix and
Sonnet Tech ugrade boards?
Sonnet offers their 500MHz upgrades in G4 and G3
Can't swap a standard slim drive into a WS CD-ROM or DVD-ROM EBM sled.
See here for more info:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html#wallstreet
As someone mentioned, there were a few CD/RWs produced by MCE, and they
are indeed quite rare. I'll repeat my usual plea here for details, if
Someone listed a request on our local Craig's List
for a Wallstreet CD-RW.
Is there such a slide in module for the Wallstreet?
That would be interesting.
Cliff
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Yes, there is a third-party CD-RW module for the WS. They're
unbelievably rare, though. Good luck tracking one down.
Cheers,
Ben
On 27 Dec 2004, at 15:43, CR wrote:
Someone listed a request on our local Craig's List
for a Wallstreet CD-RW.
Is there such a slide in module for the Wallstreet
Can I get the above mentioned drive or a similar drive
to work in a wallstreet?
TIA.
Pete.
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[Sorry for the very late posting on this thread, but I have a huge backlog]
Laurent, how did you manage to make iDVD run on a BW? Does it have
a G4 upgrade card?
Apple has always stated that iDVD requires a G4, iirc...
I would love to put one of those babies in my BW.
Luis
On my BW G3 running
Yes, I did have a G4 upgrade in the BW...
-Laurent.
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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA
Usual
bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read
audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't yet support OS
X). While that's okay, I really wanted the RW capability and to be
able to burn from iTunes. Anyone know
wrote:
Just an update on this... I just installed Panther, ran patchburnll
and the Iomega drive works like a charm.
Amanda
On 16/05/2004, at 12:16 PM, Amanda Ward wrote:
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R
Just an update on this... I just installed Panther, ran patchburnll and
the Iomega drive works like a charm.
Amanda
On 16/05/2004, at 12:16 PM, Amanda Ward wrote:
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media
on 17/05/2004 23:55, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what CD/DVD-RW is possible and preferred to replace the one in the
early Powerbook G4's (400/500 and so on)?
There aren't very many slot-loading slim drives out there. MacResQ has
them for about $149. That gets you a Matshita
You wrote about sites that describe how to make your own bracket and
I have spent 45 min trying to find one ... no luck !
Any idea where I could find this info ?
Thanks ,
Jeff
Actually there are lots of slot loading slim drives (Combos and
DVD-R/Ws),
but as JSH points out, the problem is the
Jeff Hubatka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There aren't very many slot-loading slim drives out there. MacResQ has
them for about $149. That gets you a Matshita CW-8121, which is a
8x4x32x8 combo drive.
snip
This eBay vendor has a bunch of NIB CW-8121 drives for $85 apiece:
On 5/16/04, Amanda Ward wrote:
I was going to ask about the 107 model, they seem fairly abundant on
Ebay. Is Pioneer reasonably Mac Friendly?
Amanda
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 01:32 PM, James Sanderson wrote:
If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They
have the
I've been successful getting MY unauthorized CD-RW machine to work
using the tips on these pages:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010506172701999
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021015065316805
Good luck.
CM
On Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:49 -0700, Amanda Ward
Just use patchburn one-click-easy !
Info on xlr8yourmac.com site
Jeff
On May 17, 2004, at 10:48 PM, Charles Meyerson wrote:
I've been successful getting MY unauthorized CD-RW machine to work
using the tips on these pages:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010506172701999
http
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikael=20Bystr=F6m?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 02:10:27 +0200
So what CD/DVD-RW is possible and preferred to replace the one in the
early Powerbook G4's (400/500 and so on)?
There aren't very many slot-loading
Hi Jeff,
I used patchburn and iTunes refuses to see any supported burned. There
are identical part numbers for the Iomega drive under Lite-On and
Philips, but they don't seem to make any difference.
Amanda
On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 07:58 AM, Jeff Greffe wrote:
Just use patchburn
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read
audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't yet support OS
X). While that's okay, I really wanted the RW capability and to be able
to burn from
on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read
audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't yet support OS
X). While that's okay
If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They
have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for under $100 and free
shipping.
Got mine works great
on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner
, for under $100 and free
shipping.
Got mine works great
on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read
audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega
Hi Laurent,
What software did you use for this... or did it work within OS X?
Amanda
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:49 -0700
Subject: Mac CD-RW Burners
From: Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all,
I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read
audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't
I realised that the address is wrong. That should be ESBuy.com
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 03:32 PM, James Sanderson wrote:
If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They
have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for under $100 and free
shipping.
Got mine works great
--
Is the drive a direct replacement for the older SuperDrives, such as a
Pioneer 104?
Tom
on 5/16/04 15:32, James Sanderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They
have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for under $100 and free
So what CD/DVD-RW is possible and preferred to replace the one in the
early Powerbook G4's (400/500 and so on)?
--
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recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said
was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read
audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't yet support OS
X). While that's okay, I really wanted the RW capability and to be
able
to burn from iTunes
Hmm, does this iBook really have Firewire? If so, you can get a LaCie
Firewire CD-RW drive, and those currently burn at about 52x for a CD-R,
and 24x for an RW or faster. If you don't actually have Firewire, then
you are pretty much SOL.
On Jan 10, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Mark Rath wrote:
I have
Hmm, does this iBook really have Firewire? If so, you can get a
LaCie Firewire CD-RW drive, and those currently burn at about 52x
for a CD-R, and 24x for an RW or faster. If you don't actually have
Firewire, then you are pretty much SOL.
On Jan 10, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Mark Rath wrote:
I have
-0800
To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-RW
Hmm, does this iBook really have Firewire? If so, you can get a LaCie
Firewire CD-RW drive, and those currently burn at about 52x for a CD-R,
and 24x for an RW or faster. If you don't actually have Firewire, then
you are pretty much SOL
I have an iBook FireWire (Indigo) and want to know what the fastest CD-RW
drive out there is available for this ibook. I currently have an Iomega 650
that¹s not very reliable and slow
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On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 06:30 AM, Joe Crow wrote:
Hey, folks.
I just bought a CD/RW DVD drive and popped it into the sled from my
original CD-ROM DVD drive. Everything seems to work fine, except for
burning
CD/RW's. Disk Burner says it's not supported.
I'm using a Powerbook
On Nov 26, 2003, at 6:59 AM, G-Books wrote:
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:30:53 -0500
Subject: CD/RW drive question
From: Joe Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey, folks.
I just bought a CD/RW DVD drive and popped it into the sled from my
original CD-ROM DVD drive. Everything seems to work fine, except
On Nov 26, 2003, at 6:01 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 06:30 AM, Joe Crow wrote:
Hey, folks.
I just bought a CD/RW DVD drive and popped it into the sled from
my
original CD-ROM DVD drive. Everything seems to work fine, except for
burning
CD/RW's. Disk Burner
The chair recognizes Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make it
good...
go to xlr8yourmac.com and look through their CDRW stuff there. There
may be updated driver files there for that model.
Danke, herr. Found 'em, replaced 'em, all is good now.
--Joe Crow
-Everything I need to know about
I have a G3-400 Lombard dual partitioned to boot 9.2.2 or OSX 10.1. Picked
up a re-furb Iomega USB 4x4x6 CD-RW off ebay to use for back-ups but can
not get system to recognize the burner. Iomega's site said their provided
software didn't support 9.2.2 and to use iTunes and Disc Burner
On 2/2/03 8:04 am, Andrew Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a G3-400 Lombard dual partitioned to boot 9.2.2 or OSX 10.1. Picked
up a re-furb Iomega USB 4x4x6 CD-RW off ebay to use for back-ups but can
not get system to recognize the burner. Iomega's site said their provided
software
RE; Ive run an internal search and have not found disc utility,,this may
well be my problem,, I need to ask where to look? would toast be any help?
I need to go to the store soon anyway? thankyou
hi all, this is my first experience with cd-rw recording,I started a disk I
fouled up, and ive
on 02/02/03 13:00, wappling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RE; Ive run an internal search and have not found disc utility,,this may
well be my problem,, I need to ask where to look? would toast be any help?
I need to go to the store soon anyway? thankyou
Should be in Applications - Utilities
I am having the same problem with my ibook and a smartdisk firewire cd re
writer so could I also have suggestions (I also thought I was just doing
something wrong and there would be an easy fix but nothing yet)
Does ASP show the device on the firewire port ?
Best wishes
Malcolm Cornelius -
not dealt with the issue, as I have other burners, all of which show
up. It seems to be an Iomega issue only!
Tom
Picked
up a re-furb Iomega USB 4x4x6 CD-RW off ebay to use for back-ups but can
not get system to recognize the burner. Iomega's site said their provided
software didn't
a re-furb Iomega USB 4x4x6 CD-RW off ebay to use for back-ups but can
not get system to recognize the burner. Iomega's site said their provided
software didn't support 9.2.2 and to use iTunes and Disc Burner. Apple's
site advised updating Authoring Support which I did to ver 1.9. Have
iTunes
On 2/2/03 2:58 pm, Malcolm Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having the same problem with my ibook and a smartdisk firewire cd re
writer so could I also have suggestions (I also thought I was just doing
something wrong and there would be an easy fix but nothing yet)
Does ASP show the
on 02/02/03 19:45, victoria Duggan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cd-w28E
Well
http://www.apple.com/itunes/compatibility/
Says that is should be supported - assuming the revision etc. are correct.
Also Toast seems to support it from version 4
So that suggests you haven't got the right s/w
hi all, this is my first experience with cd-rw recording,I started a disk I
fouled up, and ive not figured out how to erase it and start over,am I
missing something obvious? or do I need additional software. Im useing OSX
jag.10.2 thanks in advance
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on 01/02/03 14:40, wappling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all, this is my first experience with cd-rw recording,I started a disk I
fouled up, and ive not figured out how to erase it and start over,am I
missing something obvious? or do I need additional software. Im useing OSX
jag.10.2 thanks
, (G-Books) wrote:
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 09:40:18 -0500
Subject: g4 pb cd-rw
From: wappling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi all, this is my first experience with cd-rw recording,I started a
disk I
fouled up, and ive not figured out how to erase it and start over,am I
missing something obvious? or do I
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Hash: SHA1
Dear Listers:
Just wanted to shout out a thank you for the folks to responded to my
post.
I've narrowed down the problem with the drive to burning on CD-RW discs
only. It seems that Apple Disc Burner in Jaguar handles rather nicely
when it comes
on 24/11/02 21:40, John Fox at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
Dear Listers:
Just wanted to shout out a thank you for the folks to responded to my
post.
I've narrowed down the problem with the drive to burning on CD-RW discs
only. It seems
Hi Listers:
I recently bought an Iomega Zip CD 650 4x4x6 drive from TigerDirect.com
and I have been in heaven ever since ripping copies of my mp3s.
However, the software (Toast 4) that came bundled with it is for OS 9
and can be run in Classic. The problem is that I won't recognize my
CD-RW
. The problem is that I won't recognize my
CD-RW drive so I can't do any burning except for mp3s in iTunes.
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be run in Classic. The problem is that I won't recognize my
CD-RW drive so I can't do any burning except for mp3s in iTunes.
If you have CD burner enabled, then Toast doesn't work because the CD
Burner extensions have loaded first., blocking Toast's access to the
drive. Try renaming the Toast
and I have been in heaven ever since ripping copies of my mp3s.
However, the software (Toast 4) that came bundled with it is for OS 9
and can be run in Classic. The problem is that I won't recognize my
CD-RW drive so I can't do any burning except for mp3s in iTunes.
Is there a way that I can
This is a long post, so feel free to skip ahead.
I have a Hewlit Packard 9600si CDRW drive that I've installed in a generic
external enclosure. Bought it in June from a reliable seller on eBay and
it's worked fine on both the PM7500 450Mhz Sonnet G3 and the PB 300Mhz
WallStreet. Both machines
Hmm, thanks, I¹ll give that a shot.
jf
on 4/6/02 4:52 PM, Gene Merritt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday, April 6, 2002 7:35 PM, John Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yes, I've got the 12X10X32X and have had the same problem under OS 9.2.2.
..
with that. So I'm
At 10.49 AM +0100 4/6/02, Sam Donaldson wrote:
Apple System Profiler cannot see the drive, nor can iTunes or Toast Titanium
5.1, although strangely iTunes says that it can detect it in it's CD
Burning prefs panel, but fails to burn the CD when asked with the standard
CD software/drive not
Sam Donaldson wrote:
Thanks Gene but Toast does that automatically when it's installed.
I assure you that Toast does *not* automatically disable those extensions.
-- Kyle H. Hansen
Apple Certified Technician
Apple Hardware Technician
Macintosh Server Administrator
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