Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
For those of you who are still strugling with a nasty case of your new DVD-RW slim drive not working in your older Toshiba notebook, here is a nice little gem I found while I was looking to replace my own drive on my Satellite 1415-S173.
http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?productid=2587
This Pioneer drive has the necessary firmware update so it actually will work within your older notebook. Unfortunately i found this too late before buying another, not functioning one LG GSD-T20N which gave me the now infamous IDE#1 error...still waiting for the RMA to return it....
I know that from reading various posts on this matter, many of you were looking for the actual solution. All that MASTER/SLAVE ordeal, and how our aging little notebooks could not support newer drives. Trust me, nobody was more dissapointed than me after installing that new LG drive only to find out that it's a nice little lemon when it comes to older Satellite models.
On another note, I found out that this laptop is quite easy to fix with all the components divided into nice seperate little modules which can be removed and replaced. So far I replaced the HD (it finally died too after using it as an external drive for couple years), both left and right hinges, the touchpad, the DC-in jack and now soon to be hopefully working for me, my new Pioneer drive. One thing which so far I was not able to fix were two cables, one black and the other white running from the mini-pci module (currently empty) to back of the LCD panel (top cover) which I can only assume are the antena cables for the wireless card which provide it with greater signal strenght. It appears they seperated from somewhere beneath the main board. They came off when I first opened this now aging Toshiba notebook. Since then I must have opened it at least 10 times. (that damn heatsink keeps getting clogged with crap!)
The battery now needs replacing aswell, only holds about 3 minute charge. (thankfully i found one cheap online) I also went through several power supplies over the years. Problem with these is that you can't buy a decent one below $90 at retail outlets like Best Buy, Radio Shack or Ciruit City. Online i was able to find them for much less which is a shame cause when you need one, there isn't place to can buy them in a big city like Chicago for cheap. Ordering one online is about 30-40% cheaper than buying one at those above mentioned outlets.
Here are my few cents...I was supposed to just talk about the drive replacement fiasco but i needed to vent. My only suggestion remains that it's probably a good idea when buying a notebook to buy it with full, extended (as long as possible) warranty since they seems to break like crazy and lets face it, not a lot of people take apart their notebooks with a peace of mind as I have developped for mine over the years.
Master Inverted C-SEL Pioneer DVR-K05 for older Toshibas
Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by mr.teo, Sep 16, 2007.