OWC and fastmac both have replacements drives I have used . Works great. On Dec 25, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Lacy Kyle wrote: > Hi folks, > > Hope you all had a wonderful christmas. I have decided to loan my > standard cube to my father-in-law as it gets very little use > now......can't quite bring myself to let go of it altogether though > because I just love it so much. Anyways, my FIL has bought himself > a digital camera for christmas and the old Performa 5200 I gave him > years ago no longer cuts the mustard. The only problem with the > cube is the usual drive ejecting (or non-ejecting!) fault. I have > always got on by keeping a small pair of tweezers handy to 'help' > the disc out but, as I am now lending iy out I would like to > replace it. I would like to keep the cost as low as possible and, > although the cube currently has the CRrom/DVDrom drive fitted, > would probably prefer to change it for a CD ROM/RW drive. > > As I say, I would like to keep the cost as low as possible and > would prefer a drive that is not as likely to suffer the same > problem in the future. > > What are your recommendations? > > Thanks in advance > > Lacy Kyle > _______________________________________________ > Cube mailing list > Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984