I saw messages from folks in the recent past about replacing the
CD-ROMS drive in early iMacs. I'm interested in how it worked out for them.
I have a Bondi Blue Rev B. The CD-ROM drive is finicky. Any little
smudge will make not read a CD, and often CD I've cleaned up will not be
read, though the other computers in the house, mostly my Ti, will read the
disk fine.
If I brush the lens and wipe it down it seems to help some, but there
are still disks it will not read - or will not read every time.
This is the kids computer, and at first I thought it was all scratches
and smudges on the CDs, but as I said, my computer reads them.
I'm thinking the drive is just marginal and replacing might help.
Everyone else's posts seem to concern drives that didn't work at all - and
this one does work some of the time, though it seems to be getting worse.
I'm also interested in places cheap to get the drive. The cheapest I've
found is $70. Because the kids use it, I'd prefer an internal replacement to
keep it simpler, (though I would consider a real cheap external).
Thanks in advance.
-- Roger
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