Replacement DVD Drive for Pismo

[Tom Burke]

The DVD drive on my daughter's Pismo is showing signs of failure - 
about 50% of the time it won't read a CD when it's put into the drive. 
The drive whirrs but it's obviously not finding the directory header on 
the disk because after while the spinning stops, and no CD icon appears 
on the desktop. However, checking System Profiler itself shows the DVD 
drive there.

I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand via 
eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old 
machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it 
fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an 
external firewire optical drive. I believe LaCie do one (several?). Has 
anyone got any experience of running an external firewire DVD drive on 
an older PB? - Pismo or Lombard via a firewire port in a card?

Tom Burke
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