C90 - DVD/CDRom drive replacement?

Hey guys,

After enjoying my C90 as I have been for all of this time, I was wondering if anyone had information on the settings and/or methods to replace the DVD drive in it. I'm doing some market demonstrations for my business that I run and I wanted to show them lightscribe without having to get an external drive....so I was wondering if anyone had whatever knowledge there is to share in this regards.

I know the current drive in there is a Mat****a UJ850S, and I don't know what else is compatible. Thanks!

-DFX

 

Yes in most cases it easy to replace the drive.
So you need Lightscribe burner NEC or Sony/Nec AD-7633A with Labelflash slot drive, try drives AD-7543A, AD-7913A aLSO THE CAN READ AND WRITE TO RAM.
The points to bear in mind is once you remove you current drive the face plate (bezel) may or may not match the laptop that you have but will still work. Also you may have a Piggy back Board on the rear of your current drive is so you will need to remove this and any other fitting and replace onto the new drive...Hope this has help you...
PS
BC-5500A = Reads Blu-ray media and writes to DVD/CDs in the most compact form.

Slimline, lightweight and multi-talented: The BD-5500A is the ideal as a combined application that reads your 25 GB BD-R and BD-RE media as well as your 50 GB dual-layer R and RE Blu-ray media with 2x speed. It also read and writes to your DVDs and CDs. When storing data on DVD-Rs/DVD +Rs, it reach 8x speed and handle DVD-RAMs (max. 5x DVD speed) and DVD-RWs/DVD +RWs (max. 4x) dynamically.

Product Specification
Transer Rate Read: BD: 2x, DVD: 8x, CD: 24x
Transfer Rate Write: DVD-R: 8x, DVD +R: 8x
DVD-RW: 4x, DVD +RW: 4x
DVD-R DL: 4x, DVD +R9: 4x
DVD-RAM: 5x
CD-R: 16x, CD-RW: 10x
Access Time: BD: 320 ms, DVD: 200 ms, CD: 190 ms
Mechanism: tray load mechanism for horizontal and vertical use
Interface: E-IDE
Burst transfer rate: PIO mode 4 /Ultra DMA 33
Cache Memory: 4.5 MByte
Media supported: BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, DVD-R, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD +R, DVD +R9, DVD +RW, CD-R, CD-RW
Modes supported: BD-ROM, BD-AV (read), DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, CD-DA, CD-ROM (XA), CD Extra, Video CD, Photo CD, CD Text
Weight: 0.2 kg
Dimensions: 218 mm x 12.7 mm x 129 mm

 

wow thanks(spasibo), I don't care for Bluray...my friends and I only really watch bluray format for anime subs, and the rest of the time I don't watch movies for the most part.

What do you mean piggyback? Is this like the brace that holds the drive to the notebook?

Also I read something about possibility of needing to flash the drive...will this be necessary as well?

 

A.1) No its a connector for the ide side of things the connection on the drive is standard, but there may be a secondary connector which plugs into the into the drives IDE connections which in turn will match your connection used by you Manufacture of your Laptop.

A.2) Flashing firmware is easy to do as long as you read all related info, and some drive come prefixed as Slave and not Master. But thats another story..
Flashing the drive could be for better media support, fixed bug issues, faster or added speed settings in burning, region free.. etc etc
I tend to use hacked firmware on all my drives be it Decktops or Laptop.

Drives I tend to stick to are Pioneer, NEC,& LiteOn brands.
Firmware sites of interest are here just have a very good read even if your not going to flash your drive you'll find something of interest.

http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/NEC-ND-7550A

http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/

http://forum.rpc-1.com/dl_all.php

Late addition.
Also see if you can get a service manual for your laptop, I know dell you can download their service manual which give I thing clear details on how to open/remove parts. So checkout your brand..

 

well 2 things

what is the difference other than what I read on wiki for labelflash/lightscribe?
It sounds like labelflash discs are really freakin expensive....and as far as firmware flash will I have to do that bios-side or can it be done within windows/linux?

 

A1.) http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?p=3210 Disk in europe not that costly

A2) Some you may DOS or right in windows/linux/Mac.