To follow up I got an OWC external optical drive and plugged it in and everything just works. Now in iDVD there is a pull down menu when it comes to burning to choose which drive, the matshita internal or the new external. Also after plug and play putting a DVD into the external automatically launches the DVD player app. All is well and Melrose Mac quoted approx. $250 to 300 to replace the internal drive. I looked up the proceedure and while it looks doable it really seems problematic with all the emi tape and foam. With new iMacs not available and the current version out of stock in a lot of places this will do fine for now.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> So of course just when we pick up an editing job at home the internal optical drive on our iMac 5.1 circa 2006/7 is not burning DVDs and is not reading DVDs particularly well. I've googled and there seem to be a myriad of possibilities but my gut says it's the drive itself. I've ordered an external optical drive which should work for the time being. Does anyone know if iDVD will recognize the external drive like it did the internal and burn to it? I don't know why it wouldn't but figured I'd ask the collective.
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> I also looked up a How To for replacing the internal optical. Seems like a bit of a pain. Anybody have any success stories replacing the internal optical drives on an older intel mac 5.1? The older G5 models look easy but there's a lot of sticky EMI tape other sticky foam that seems a little daunting on the later intel models. Of course even if I blew it up the new external drive would work on a new iMac which is looking more and more appealing.
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> John Moore
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