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From: Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 7:56 am
Subject: Re: Is this internal CD/DVD drive positively dead?
On Jan 3, 2010, at 9:30 PM, tonycd wrote:
>
> Any reason to believe the drive isn't dead, and/or any remaining
> tests, procedures or paramedic help I've not yet tried?
Replacements are cheap enough that it's senseless to spend much time
trying all the stuff you've been told to do. OS X doesn't fail like
this, but optical drives do, regularly. They're the most mechanically
complex and fallible part of a computer, and for a long time they've
been seriously commodity items, which means corners get cut routinely
in manufacture.
Frys Electronics has a Pioneer DVD- R-RW for $29:
<http://tinyurl.com/ycfdumt>
Some googling produced a Lite-ON DL drive for $32
<http://salestores.com/liteonihap32.html>
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
I would get the Pioneer drive. I have had very good luck with them. I just
had to RMA two Samsung LightScribe drives from OWC. They failed too many burns
and the LightScribe feature required two passes. Be sure to get a IDE PATA
They are getting more scarce at some of the Fry's stores, the one near me only
has the Liteon. I get all my drives from OWC or Newegg.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
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