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
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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 it
I replaced the dying DVD-ROM in my wife's Pismo with a Samsung combo
drive from a Dell laptop. I swapped the internals in the caddy and
used Patchburn to fully support burning. A little fine sanding and
superglue on the bezel and you can hardly tell it's not the original.
Can you still play
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
