[wellylug] cdrom transplant on old laptop

[Jp Wise]

Look up pin47.

This should give you the info.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/oem_combo_drives/notebook_combo_drive.html

Whether or not it works I have no idea.

Jp.

Bill Christiansen wrote:
> The cdrom drive on my old Toshiba was starting to fail badly making it 
> hard to boot livecd's without buffer i/o errors so I picked up a 
> replacement drive on trademe that had the right connector and physical 
> specs. It had the added bonus of also being a cd writer and dvd 
> reader. Was somewhat major surgery on this old laptop, having to 
> remove lots of 
> screws to split the casing and pull the ribbon cables. My heart nearly sank when all I got was a blinking light after reassembly and powering back on until I realised that one of the screws I'd left a bit loose was also responsible for clamping the cpu onto the mother board. 
> Anyway in the end the operation was sucsessful, only problem is the 
> new drive is seen in linux as /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdc which is 
> not really a problem except the bios can't see it at all meaning I 
> can't boot from it. Fortunately though I'd made an SBM (smart boot 
> manager) floppy while the old cd drive was still in the laptop and it 
> has an entry for the cd drive so I can boot from the floppy then when 
> the menu comes up select the cd drive and it will boot my new cd drive 
> but if I tell SBM to rescan my devices it can't see the new drive 
> either. I'll be OK as long as I never loose the original floppy I made.
> Old drive was TEAC CD-224E, new drive shows up as QSI 
> CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242. Anyone know if the master/slave status is changeable on these laptop drives?
>
> Bill
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