[iBook] Second Hand Mac woes

[Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail]

Hi Andy, thanks for the info regarding the CD. I think I may just go to 
Apple and get the real deal. I guess I am just picky about the design.

But I will investigate the possibility further.

Thanks so much!!!

Alex

On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Andy McMullin wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ibook-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com [mailto:ibook-
>> bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Alex Santos 100MB
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>> Sent: 14 January 2005 23:40
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>> Subject: Re: [iBook] Second Hand Mac woes
>>
>> Were you able to have the original CD ROM door fitted on the new 
>> drive?
>> The Toshiba drive sound great, I wonder if this is what Apple actually
>> uses.
>
> Yes and No (which is a weird answer I know). The original door was 
> removed
> from the CD-ROM but it then required modification to work with the new
> DVD/CD Drive (so is no longer original).
>
> It needed a new hole drilled into it to match the position of the 
> lever for
> opening the drive when the iBook won't -- the hole you push a 
> paper-clip
> through to get disks out. It also required the removal of the plastic 
> part
> that gets pushed using the "old" hole. I don't have any photographs of 
> this
> but both of these should make more sense when you take the door off the
> "old" drive and compare it with the "new".
>
> It also required a bit of fiddling to fit it onto the drive properly.
>
> I understand that the Toshiba is one of the drives Apple fitted and 
> you can
> avoid all this messing around if you get the door from a DVD/CD 
> version of
> an iBook to replace your CD version's door.
>
>> My problem is that the iBook boots to OSX now as this is what I chose
>> in the startup disk control panel in 9. But OSX presented with a login
>> window and I would like to now start back from 9, otherwise with the
>> CDROM not working and no password for OSX, I won't be able to do
>> anything with it.
>
> I had this sort of problem for a short while (dead CD drive but the
> necessity to boot from CD media). I used a FireWire device as a boot 
> drive
> and got around it that way as a temporary fix. The only trouble is I'm 
> not
> sure what I did to get it to work! I am sure someone else on this list 
> will
> be able to help though.
>
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
> http://www.rickham.net/
>
>
>
>
>
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