The baked logic board - part 2 - the superdrive

[Grant]

right, so many are aware i baked a logic board of a very very old mbp that was destined for the bin.
pleased to report, the machine has been running flawlessly ever since.

i discovered another old mbp in the store room - also destined for the bin (this was had been dinged and dropped etc etc).

so, the one with the freshly baked logic board, has like most, a defective superdrive - just spits discs straight out as soon as they are inserted.
however, the older dinged machine has / had a superdive that worked perfectly (tested yesterday).

the older machine (2006 model) has a panasonic uj 857-c superdrive.
the "baked" machine (2007 model) has hitachi HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N

i figure swap them over
i put the working panasonic superdrive into the newer machine - but alas, it is not recognized.
under system profile:
ATA - no connected devices
Disc burning - no device
the drive powers up and spins, but there appears to be no communication, power only.

any ideas ?

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i've tried resetting both smc & pram on a few occasions, as well as cleaning contacts
both machines are running SL 10.6.8

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Can also be that the BIOS of said boards are hardware-specific and will only recognize certain peripherals. Does not make sense from a cost-cutting POV though....

 

[koffiejunkie]

The Matsu****a uj857c drives were the standard around that time and should work on all Macs. My 2005 Mac Mini (G4) and 2007 MacBook both had that exact drive.

So maybe ATA port on your baked board is damaged?

Either ways, whatever you do, don't try to flash the firmware on that drive. They brick instantly.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Matsu*****a

lol another one for the retarded offensive word filter

 

[koffiejunkie]

Matsu*****a

lol another one for the retarded offensive word filter

<Sigh> Amusing that it put 5 asterisks in to blank out four letters. Either ways: ma tsu shi ta

 

[koffiejunkie]

Amusing that it put 5 asterisks in to blank out four letters.

Oh wait, that was you

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Oh wait, that was you

nope

I put in mat su sh !t a...

maybe it differ between sh i t and sh ! t

test sh i t : ****
test sh ! t : *****


by gum yes

 

[koffiejunkie]

test sh i t : ****
test sh ! t : *****D

Aaah, learn something new every day.

 

[Grant]

The Matsu****a uj857c drives were the standard around that time and should work on all Macs. My 2005 Mac Mini (G4) and 2007 MacBook both had that exact drive.

So maybe ATA port on your baked board is damaged?

Either ways, whatever you do, don't try to flash the firmware on that drive. They brick instantly.

ata port is fine, was seeing the old superdrive - it's just that the drive spat discs out seconds after they went in