On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:

>
> What's much more painful is dealing with a similar but worse version
> of this problem on my Pismo. It's fussy about brands, and probably
> about DVD-R vs. DVD+R, and probably just plain fussy about homemade
> DVD's as opposed to DVD's whose data was stamped at the factory. But
> first, a try with the cleaner disc...

The Pismo's came with LG drives that were legendary for their  
craptasticalness. First sign of trouble is they stop reading DVD's.

There are any number of laptop mechanisms you can use to replace the  
drive.

ONe of the LEM powerbook lists (the gbook list perhaps) just had a  
discussion about this with specific brand mentions.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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