Ext. Quefire drive CDRW broke, can I replace the drive with a NEC or Pionee

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Ext. Quefire drive CDRW broke, can I replace the drive with a NEC or Pionee

I had one of those Quefire 16x10x40 CDRW firewire external drives and now the drive doesn't work. The Mac says it can't find the CDRW/brunner software or drive. I'm assuming the drive is bad and not the enclosure electronics. The drive inside is a Teac CD-W516E.

Would I be able to buy an internal NEC ND-3550 or Pioneer DVR-110 and use it in the same Quefire enclosure electronics?

Thanks for any suggestions.

G4-400 + 1GHz Sonnet, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Dec 17, 2005 7:31 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 17, 2005 4:41 PM in response to BlueRondo

The Firewire chipset in the old casing may be bad, and it also may not support the much higher burn speeds of a new 16X DVD burner.

It cannot hurt to try, since even if it does not work, you can easily put the new driv in your mac to replace the original installed drive.

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BlueRondo Author

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Dec 19, 2005 6:03 PM in response to Hussein-New-York

Thanks, I ordered the NEC on Sunday and alread got a shipment confirmation Monday morning. Newegg.com is fast.
I can't wait to try it.

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BlueRondo Author

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Dec 20, 2005 10:31 PM in response to BlueRondo

Hussein,
Amazing, the NEC works in the Quefire enclosure. I will still consider putting it internal some day but for now i'll just use it this way.

Next project is to try to burn one of my imovies with idvd.

Thanks for your generous help!

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Answer 4

Dec 21, 2005 8:18 AM in response to BlueRondo

Hi

"Next project is to try to burn one of my imovies with idvd"

This won't work with an external drive unless you have iDVD5.01...

For older versions, you need to run PatchBurn/Expert Mode/Install iDVD support, which will give you the option of burning to external drives when you control-click the iDVD burn button twice...

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Answer 5

BlueRondo Author

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Dec 21, 2005 8:52 AM in response to Hussein-New-York

I worked!

Using iDVD 4.0. With pathburn. With my drive in the external firewire enclosure.

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Answer 6

Dec 21, 2005 5:38 PM in response to BlueRondo

Thanks for posting back with your success 😉

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