Hinges getting loose, AC charger needs to be inserted in a certain way to charge, and now it won't let me burn a disk. I have a Lite-On external burner that I used to have mounted in the Piz but removed it to use with my Mini9 with which it works fine. I have a couple of files I want to copy but when I plug in the Lite-On And fire up Toast it says there is nothing hooked up. Switched USB ports; nothing, and then went to System Info which says there IS a Lite-On burner connected to the port.
I restarted, RP'd, but still same results. What am I missing here?
Pismo 400 G3 1GB ram 10.4.11.

What version of Toast?

Will a disc mount in the Finder off of that burner?

Does the burner have Firewire?

Zapped the PRAM and Repaired permissions?

>What version of Toast?
5.2.3. Used it just a couple of months ago with no issues other than it was still installed in the Pismo.
>Will a disc mount in the Finder off of that burner?
No indication that it's being read other than it showing up in Sys Info. It is in a USB enclosure.
Haven't zapped but did RP.

isn't pismo like 10 years old or so? now find a windows laptop that lasted as long as that. I bet you can't.

> 5.2.3. Used it just a couple of months ago with no issues other than it
> was still installed in the Pismo.

So you've never tried to burn from the Pismo using the drive in that enclosure?

If so, the enclosure seems to be the problem.

>If so, the enclosure seems to be the problem.
It works fine hooked up the Mini9.
Yeah, I got it in December of '99. This past April I loaned it to some friends who were in Florida for two months and needed something for email. It worked like a champ-has an Airport card in it and they piggybacked off the next door neighbor!
The button to open the burner door quit working on it so I removed the drive and put it back in the original enclosure to use with the Mini9 and figured I could use it externally with the Pismo if I ever needed to.
I'll fiddle with it some more. Thanx for the input.

check the toast drivers - they might be old for using this as an external burner.

The Pismo only has USB 1.1 - will be slow as an external drive, especially compared to the relatively faster speed of the internal (IDE?) connector.

[That is still my favorite Apple laptop of all time - just ahead of my original Lapzilla PB17 G4].



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2009 06:45PM by sekker.

My Pismo is now my iTunes jukebox for my Stereo System... all iTunes, all the time.

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Bill
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

Carpe Vino!

Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.
— David Rains Wallace

Mine still works fine, but is cracking in several places. It could use a new screen (I have the bulb, but
that was 3 years ago - and the install could be impossible depending on screen brand once you
get in that far... so I left it alone and never even unpacked the bulb!)

Otherwise, mine sits as an 80GB FW Target Mode drive for the moment.