Hi,Regarding the Pismo upgrade of a DVD option, (and selectively summarising the opinions expressed: 1. One piece of advice was "The site states, that it is set in the firmware to "cable select/slave". The drives in the Pismo all had a switch to select master mode". 2. Another mentioned "Setting the jumper correctly is a different matter. If you set it to "cable select" you may be right, it quite possibly wouldn't boot since the cable in the Pismo doesn't support "cable select" setting. You'd need to set the unit to "master" before installing it". 3. Yet another wrote "the problem is, that the most recent drives do not support the selection of master or slave. They do not have the jumper anymore. A very few may have a firmware, that preferably selects master at startup. But if they do not have a jumper and there is no special firmware, you might find yourself with a non-bootable drive".
>From my experience it is important to check that the DVD drive you buy for a Pismo is set to Master. I purchased a UJ-810B drive which I thought would work since other Panasonic models did. However, not only is it NOT bootable, but it will not accept any CD or DVD put into it. It immediately spits them out the side. I believe that is because the drive is set to Slave and would need the jumper soldered to change it to Master for it to work. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
