[TonyIC]

I am trying to figure out which combo drive to use.

I know most people have used the Matsushita(Panasonic) UJDA710 (8x CD-R/4x CD-RW/ 24x Read). But I am curious if anyone has used a <a href="http://www.teac.co.jp/dspd/product/optical/dw-28e.html" target="_blank">Teac DW-28E</a> (8x CD-R/8x CD-RW/ 24x Read). It appears to be the same size, shape, type...

Any comments on compatability (iTunes, DiscBurner, OS X) would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tony

[STH]

I'm also looking at the Teac drive since it seems to be very good.

I ordered one already and will hopefully get it soon - then I'll be able to give details.

Meanwhile the following threat on Groups@Google is worth reading. It's in French but AFAIK it states really good results! The orginal Pismo DVD-face-plate doesn't seem to be usable anymore though...

Here comes the link - hope ist works...

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...banet.ch#link5

Otherwise do a powersearch on 'dw28-e' with the language set to french...

[shunt]

Hi,

I believe that Teac drive is the same one used in the Smartdisk burner I just bought. It's a slimline/firewire external burner and Toast reports it as Teac CD-DW28E. It's 8x8x24, and it burns really nice. Very quiet, a full CDR data burn averages about 8-9 minutes. It is supposed to support iTunes, but I only use Toast. I would definitely recommend it. It needs High speed media to get the 8x burn. I used Fuji 1x-24x CDR's and Memorex 4x-10x CDRW's with excellent results.

Hope this helps

Originally posted by TonyIC:
I am trying to figure out which combo drive to use.

I know most people have used the Matsushita(Panasonic) UJDA710 (8x CD-R/4x CD-RW/ 24x Read). But I am curious if anyone has used a <a href="http://www.teac.co.jp/dspd/product/optical/dw-28e.html" target="_blank">Teac DW-28E</a> (8x CD-R/8x CD-RW/ 24x Read). It appears to be the same size, shape, type...

Any comments on compatability (iTunes, DiscBurner, OS X) would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tony

[STH]

Originally posted by shunt:
Hi,

I believe that Teac drive is the same one used in the Smartdisk burner I just bought. It's a slimline/firewire external burner and Toast reports it as Teac CD-DW28E.

Hope this helps

So I guess all the usual features work under 10.1.5? How about DVD playback etc.?

[shunt]

Looks like they're not the same exact mechanism after all, even though the model#'s are identical. Still, quality-wise I'm happy with Teac.

I'm hoping someone will put out a similar unit to the Smardisk except dvd-r/-rw. That would be nice, if it was slimline and dedicated firewire.

[escher]

I broke the CD tray on my low-end iBook's CD-ROM drive. I'm considering replacing the drive with a Matsushita (Panasonic) CW-8121 -- the slot-loading 8x Combo drive from the recent TiBooks.

Do any of you here have thoughts about the process and compatibility in terms of connectors? I assume since the iBook's CD-ROM and the slot-load Combo are both made by Matsushita they will be compatible connection-wise. I'm less worried about the face plate since I can just modify the old one with a dremel tool, build my own, or live without one.

Escher

[STH]

Here we go:

I just received the Teac DW-28E slimline drive. Installing it was very easy. There's 6 screws that need to be removed, pull out the old drive, put in the new one. The faceplate pretty much fits ok. I will try to install the original one though.

After restarting the computer ASP shows the drive correctly. It also mentions 'Apple Disc Burning:supported'. Toast 5.1.2 recognizes the drive w/o any hassle. I'm doing a backup on CDRW as I'm writing this. DVD playback works fine so far.

The drive 'sounds' much better than my former LG (which started to goof around anyway).

I will test iTunes (ripping + burning) and booting from the drive later!

[TonyIC]

Originally posted by STH:
Here we go:

I just received the Teac DW-28E slimline drive. Installing it was very easy. There's 6 screws that need to be removed, pull out the old drive, put in the new one. The faceplate pretty much fits ok. I will try to install the original one though.

After restarting the computer ASP shows the drive correctly. It also mentions 'Apple Disc Burning:supported'. Toast 5.1.2 recognizes the drive w/o any hassle. I'm doing a backup on CDRW as I'm writing this. DVD playback works fine so far.

The drive 'sounds' much better than my former LG (which started to goof around anyway).

I will test iTunes (ripping + burning) and booting from the drive later!

What OS are you using? I have migrated fully to OS X.

Thanks for the update. Please Keep us posted. I just didn't want to be the first one to try.

[fakeplasticspence]

where did you buy the drive and for how much? my lg drive is I would say kapoot. it just spins and clunks every so often no reading at all. I would like to get a firewire external burner but would miss dvd playback, plus I would miss having the whole internal drive, use it where I want to idea. I would appreciate the help.

[STH]

Sorry, I forgot about the OS. I've migrated fully to OS X as well - all testing was done in 10.1.5

Booting from CD works fine by just pressing 'C' (tested with OS X install CD). CD burning works fine with Disk Copy as well. I haven't figured out how to tell iTunes to recognize the drive though. I trashed the preferences (itunes.plist) but it still lists my old external Firewire CDRW. Naturally, it can't find that one anymore.
Any idea on how I can get rid of this setting in iTunes or force a re-scan for supported devices?
Ripping music from CD with iTunes works perfectly by the way.

I bought the drive in Germany through a normal reseller - it costs about EUR 225.- which right now is approx. an equal amount in US-$.

UPDATE: I found some more iTunes-Prefs and trashed them. Now it says 'No supoorted device found...' Oh well... I guess iTunes burning won't work then. But then, I hardly ever used it since I got my iPod. ;-)

[shunt]

Awesome update, thanks....

[STH]

I just installed Jaguar by booting from the Teac drive. Worked without a problem.

However, Apple Disk Burning does NOT support the drive in 10.2! I just it from time to time for quickly burning Images...

Toast 5.1.2 still works fine.