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Yes, that was my fear - I was hoping being it somewhat a known issue, but apparently that's not the case. I'll try to take apart the Pismo and take a look at the motherboard and the connector. Thanks. Kind regards, Gabriele

Cheers, The second Pismo is not giving me the same issues, with neither drive, thus the drive is not the culprit. Tried with an SSD too, no difference. And well no, there's no ribbon cable, the media bay module connects directly to the logic board - both the connector on the logic board and the...

Hi MacUp72, thanks for your reply. Swapped the HDDs - no joy, the sick Pismo behaves the same also with the HDD from the working one. If I understand correctly, the HDD and the media bay are on two different, separated ATA buses - the former is on the ATA100 bus from a dedicated controller...

Just a quick update: I've been able to get my hands on another Pismo, unfortunately swapping the drives makes no difference. The sick Pismo hangs also with the other drive, and the working Pismo accepts both without any issue. I'll try to take apart the laptop and check the logic board for any...

Nope, at least none I can see: both the connector on the motherboard and the connector on the module looks fine. I checked my parts bin and found only a couple of SATA slimline DVD drives, so I'm unable to test a replacement atm: anyway as I wrote it behaves the same also if I remove the DVD...

Hi! Thanks for the suggestions. Yes, it's the original DVD-ROM drive, and unfortunately it's the only drive for the media bay I have. I already tried replacing the hard drive, but lacking the optical drive (even a firewire one) I've been unable to do a fresh reinstall; I just copied the 9.2.2...

Hi everyone, long time lurker, first post here. I've recently found a fairly cheap Pismo in nice working conditions: felt in love with the machine, it's really a nice piece of hardware. When I got it, the dvd drive had no issue seemingly - I installed Panther from an original cd without any...