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A DVD burner 8x in a pismo (light version)

Tête Philippe
Philippe Helman

As usual, I cannot be responsible for any damage to your machines when you will experiment the following tutorial.

Well, as I don't have any burner in my Pismo anymore (sold), I decided to install a Toshiba SD-R6472, tray-loading DVD+-R 8x superdrive (I promised it in another article).

To remember, I fit the original LG faceplate on a Toshiba SD-R2312 and SD-R2412, so Why not the Toshiba Superdrive ?

For the installation of the drive in the bay, check the first pictures there (SD-R2312 link) or there (UJ-835).

1)

Once installed in the Pismo, and System Profiler launched, it is not... funny. We can see that :

a) It is not supported by the iApps

b) The drive is slave (1) and to boot the Pismo, it must be master (0)

2)

Supported by Toast from scratch, 7 minutes to burn 4.4 Gb of data. A real pleasure.

3)

Run Patchburn 3 and...

4)

There it is: ready for iTunes and DiscBurner.

5)

THE tricky part for some of you: a little welding point to jump pins 45 and 47 and force the drive in master (0).

6)

Done!!! The Pismo boots now on CD or DVD with the C key pushed, for example.

7)

The original Toshiba plate. Black, but ugly!!!

8)

Unclip the 3 clips , the 4th clip will come easily.

9)

Not easy...

10)

Not easy (bis). Hopefully, the 2 Eject buttons are luckily at the right place!!!

11)

I cut out the 3 brackets off the LG faceplate, and narrowed the widest .

12)

Clipped back, glued on 3 places, centered in the Pismo while the glue was drying.

Indeed, you can't see the difference. Nice, isn't it?

What? You think it's not the DVD-burner behind the plate?

So, go next.

13)

Origiinal LG is on the left.

14)

The 2 bays outside, side-by-side.

15)

Little zoom on the burner.

Conclusion: You know what? I'm happy.

Still have 2 superdrives for sale. Please contact me:

Mail Philippe

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