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Lance - 25 May 2005 00:24 GMT

Hi all,
I want to upgrade a PowerBook "Pismo"s DVD rom drive to DVD/CD-RW. Can I use
any brand that is available? Will the system OSX 10.3 find it if I replace
it with something new? I use Toast to burn on my other computer and it seems
to find external drives.
TIA
Lance

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Ken Taylor - 26 May 2005 16:01 GMT

> I want to upgrade a PowerBook "Pismo"s DVD rom drive to DVD/CD-RW. Can I use
> any brand that is available?

The short answer is yes - the long answer is that you may want to try
and match the brand you have so that you can have a hope of fitting the
front panel off the drive - failing that - like me, you can just have
the bare drive front visible, but a drive that functions fine.

> Will the system OSX 10.3 find it if I replace
> it with something new? I use Toast to burn on my other computer and it seems
> to find external drives.

You may want to grab patchburn:

http://www.patchburn.de/

And have a look at the drive database at:

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso

To see other people's experiences - it would appear that the Matsushita
UJDA 7xx series is the simplest, but many have had success with Toshiba
drives also.

Ken

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