Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

Il giorno 12/09/17 16:01, "William Tomcanin" ha scritto: > Overall, I'm pleased with the replacement. I don't know if it's worth it > to try and find an adapter that would restore the ability to burn discs. That's up to you, but I wouldn't. When my iMac's internal optical drive stopped working,

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

Just a brief update... I gave up on trying to get the the Pioneer optical drive to work again -- I got it to work for about 1 day, then the same problem. I won't recognized discs (CDs or DVDs) that it played immediately after cleaning the previous day. The LG unit works well, although the

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

UNSUBSCRIBE On Monday, August 21, 2017, William Tomcanin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed completely. I > removed it took it apart, cleaned it which brought it back to life for > about one day. Today it refuses to read

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

Il giorno 22/08/17 00:06, "Roger Hodge" ha scritto: > Nope, Mine uses ATA drive for the dvd drive... :) Yep. IIRC, G5s had SATA interface for the hard drives, and ATA for the optical drive(s). -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

Nope, Mine uses ATA drive for the dvd drive... :) On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Roger Hodge wrote: I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great! LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R G5’s

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

Thanks, Bruce. I am about to purchase an LG drive from OWC (with an SATA-IDE/ATAPI converter). I realize that I will likely loose write capability, but I think that is a function of the adapter that is coming with the product. I'm in the process of researching other adapters that might allow

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Roger Hodge wrote: > > I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great! > > LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R G5’s use SATA drives and optical drives. QS systems use ATA. Different interface. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great! LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 21, 2017, at 6:27 AM, William Tomcanin wrote: Hello everyone, My 15-year old original Pioneer

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 6:27 AM, William Tomcanin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed completely. I > removed it took it apart, cleaned it which brought it back to life for about > one day. Today it refuses to read

Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

Hello everyone, My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed completely. I removed it took it apart, cleaned it which brought it back to life for about one day. Today it refuses to read anything! Time to replace it and I am wondering what folks are using these days. I've been to