DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in
Pismos.
I get many enquiries for replacement DVD drives, and often they
show the symptom of reading CDs but not DVDs or vice versa.
How do you know the LG model from any of the others?
It tells you in Apple System Profiler,
On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in
Pismos.
Is there any way to repair it? Or should I just toss the drive and
buy a new one?
I tend to replace the mechanism, never tried to repair them.
are the units
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:45 PM, James Sanderson wrote:
On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:44, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in
Pismos.
I get many enquiries for replacement DVD drives, and often they
show the
symptom of reading CDs but not
On 01/02/06 09:37, Scott Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in
Pismos.
Is there any way to repair it? Or should I just toss the drive and
buy a new one?
I tend to
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
I saw the connector on the back, and it seemed to be the same
connector as on the back of the slot loading drive I pulled from a
G4 Cube, but I'm unfamiliar with that formfactor.
There is an adapter board on the back of the drive. Under the
are the units just standard Laptop IDE?
I saw the connector on the back, and it seemed to be the same
connector as on the back of the slot loading drive I pulled from a G4
Cube, but I'm unfamiliar with that formfactor.
Yup.
Should be a drive set to Master, and if you use a different drive
Hi all. I just joined.
I recently came into posession of a broken G3 Powerbook Pismo. It
seemed relatively complete (no hard drive, no keyboard, no psu, but
cpu, ram, dvd-rom, battery). I borrowed a 3400 from work, and tried
out the pismo with it, but nothing.
I completely
I just finally found my 10.4 DVD-R, and was about to install that
over 10.2, to find out that for some reason, the DVD-ROM drive (the
stock apple one) doesn't seem to read DVD-R discs... or at least, it
doesn't read DVD-R discs that I've burnt.
Is this a common problem, or am I doing
On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
I just finally found my 10.4 DVD-R, and was about to install that
over 10.2, to find out that for some reason, the DVD-ROM drive (the
stock apple one) doesn't seem to read DVD-R discs... or at least, it
doesn't read DVD-R discs that I've
DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in
Pismos.
Is there any way to repair it? Or should I just toss the drive and
buy a new one?
I tend to replace the mechanism, never tried to repair them.
--
Best wishes
Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic
Hi all. I just joined.
I recently came into posession of a broken G3 Powerbook Pismo. It
seemed relatively complete (no hard drive, no keyboard, no psu, but
cpu, ram, dvd-rom, battery). I borrowed a 3400 from work, and tried
out the pismo with it, but nothing.
I completely disassembled
On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:44, Malcolm Cornelius wrote:
DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in
Pismos.
I get many enquiries for replacement DVD drives, and often they
show the
symptom of reading CDs but not DVDs or vice versa.
How do you know the LG model from any
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