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Wrecked optical drive - where to get a new one?
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Barcelona, SPAIN
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Hi all...
I've got a PowerBook 667 DVI with a Combo drive (the Matsushita CW-8121B) which is wrecked. It doesn't successfully burn any CDs now and rarely reads a data disk. DVD playback is good though. Now I need a new one of those and they cost sooooo much from Apple. Is there any place where I can get either of the following:
the 24x CW-8122B
or the
the 8x CW-8121B
I've seen a few on ebay but unfortunately none of them offer international shipping which I need (being in Iceland and all). Again, I'd like to find some online parts supplier of used or new drives such as these.
Thanx for any help provided.
Tobs
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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If it successfully reads DVDs I would be very surprised if the drive was at fault here.
Have you been able to tes your machine with an external drive to see what happens? Just to make sure before you're spending major money...
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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Well, either the CD or DVD reading lens (or whatever it is) can fail independently of the other, so it may very well be hardware.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: San Francisco
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My drive wasn't damaged, but I had it swapped out for the DVD-R-burning SuperDrive.
www.allmac.com (also known as 1.800.WE.FIX.MACS) did a pretty good job. Give them an email / call.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Barcelona, SPAIN
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I have already confirmed that this is a drive issue and was most likely caused from a dvd region hack to make it region free.
Since EBCDIC: Thanks for that, while I wasn't interested in getting a SuperDrive (since I don't need to burn a DVD on my laptop and can use the SuperDrive on a dual instead) I decided to hop over to AllMac and see what they had. According to their website they have that CW-8121B drive. I sent them an e-mail to check if they had the faster CW-8122B. The slower one, CW-8121B, is 199 USD according to their website.
thx for the help
- tobs
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: netherlands
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you can get the 8122B from www.mini-itx.com, a UK based store... should work i guess...
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MacBook Pro 13"/2.66 (09/2010), Mac Mini c2d/1.83 (01/2008)
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