Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:25:58 -0600 Subject: Re: cd rom From: John Teffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on 1/25/04 4:07 PM, Bruce Klutchko at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/25/04 4:17 PM, "greg merkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.My name is Greg.This is the first time i have ever posted to this list'so please be patient.I have a slot loading blueberry i mac currently running 9.2.2 with a 30 gigabyte hard drive.My Cd Rom refuses to recognize any disk i insert.
Because you have a slot-loading CD drive, you cannot replace it with a CDRW.
There just aren't any.
Apple shipped a lot of slot loading iMacs with 8/4/24X CD-RWs built in,
didn't they? I don't know if these can be swapped among all the slot loading
iMacs or not though. Or if you can find them anywhere. I just looked on eBay
"iMac slot" and saw DVD and CD drives, but no writers. I'd think that the
CD-RWs would show up occasionally as people parted out broken machines at
least.
I wound up buying a USB CDRW, but that is very very slow.
You must have the one model of slot load iMac without FireWire. There are
FireWire CD burners that are very fast.
The iMac uses Powerbook drives, doesn't it? I know you can get combo drives from MacResQ for the TiBook for about $150, and a faster drive from Logic Supply for the same price. Both are natively supported in OS9 and OSX. I thought I read that all the slot-loaders can play DVD's (but didn't come with DVD drives) on the LEM site, but I don't see that any more.
USB CD burning has a max speed of 4x.
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JSH
TiBook
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