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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: Where can I find notebook DVD writer drives? |
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Hard to find on gmarket.co.kr.
Need to find a TEAC DV-W28E for my notebook, or can I use any other brand as long as it fits? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: Where can I find notebook DVD writer drives? |
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| rocklee wrote: |
Hard to find on gmarket.co.kr.
Need to find a TEAC DV-W28E for my notebook, or can I use any other brand as long as it fits? |
You should be able to use any other brand as long as it fits. Also, you may want to consider an external. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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You SHOULD be able to use any brand as long as it fits. BUT it depends sometimes if the orig drive was on the master PCI or not. You see some laptop drives are switchable slave to master and visa versa, some are not.
I can't expalin it too well but some months back I had to look into this when I F...ked up the firmware on my notebook's dvdr.
I ended up taking it to Yongsan and a Korean dude put in a Samsung drive cheap (real cheap compared to what "Compaq Genuine" quoted me).
Externals are great but you can only boot from them if your bios supports boot from extenal device (mine doesn't).
I have an external anyway and it has been a great asset in backing up data for others when their pc won't start.
Good luck. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks shane!
Uh...is 140,000 won for a DVD-RW+- notebook drive reasonable? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| rocklee wrote: |
Thanks shane!
Uh...is 140,000 won for a DVD-RW+- notebook drive reasonable? |
For an internal, they kinda have you by the short hairs - reasonable.
For an EXTERNAL it is robbery. External case with a DVD burner is about 60k won. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| For an internal, they kinda have you by the short hairs - reasonable. |
Yeah I guess I don't have a choice as this particular model is so hard to find on the internet in korea. Oh and thanks for your other mobile phone advice. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| rocklee wrote: |
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| For an internal, they kinda have you by the short hairs - reasonable. |
Yeah I guess I don't have a choice as this particular model is so hard to find on the internet in korea. Oh and thanks for your other mobile phone advice. |
Yur welcome. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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Yur welcome. |
Man...you'd figure that by now, an English teacher would know how to properly spell the phrase "you are welcome". For pete's sake!!!!
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ttompatz
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
Yur welcome. |
Man...you'd figure that by now, an English teacher would know how to properly spell the phrase "you are welcome". For pete's sake!!!!
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Ya'll kin b welcome 2.
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Some update.
I didn't get that Teac as the model was dated Sept. 2003. My current CDR was newer.
Instead, I got my hands on an LG DVDRW combo, installed and tested by the technician. I saved fricking 70,000 won because I didn't buy from I-mall.
Mind you, most people will still try to rip you off, like 90,000 won for a second hand DVDRW. I quoted that the same drive was far cheaper in Japan at around 75,000w and he told me to get out of the shop. Another shop quoted 130,000w for a Teac but he couldn't even show me the drive (had to get it from somewhere else).
There was 130,000 for a current year version of mine (Panasonic DVDRW), I almost went for that until I saw the LGs.
Its amazing how people can just happen to quote you 130,000-140,000w after looking at you for only 10 seconds. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| rocklee wrote: |
Instead, I got my hands on an LG DVDRW combo, installed and tested by the technician. I saved fricking 70,000 won because I didn't buy from I-mall.
Its amazing how people can just happen to quote you 130,000-140,000w after looking at you for only 10 seconds. |
LG make good dependable optical drives. Their performance is pretty impressive overall, even if they're not top-of-the-pops at any one task.
As for quoting prices, the first thing they do is look at your skin color. Happens in most countries, it's not just here. Then, do you speak the language? If no, the price goes up even more.
You can minimise the problems by learning a bit of the language, especially haggling-related and basic conversation. Learn about the hardware you want, and alternatives, and have some pricing clues (looks like you had this one down pat). Then throw in a little overacting, a few smiles and frowns, and see what happens. 
Muggie2 |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Actually I just found out that this particular LG drive was problematic which had to have several firmware revised until it could run as promised.
It reads my DVDs, but takes a while (it couldn't quite read one of them reliably for some reason).
I burned a DVD yesterday but only at 4x (was an 8x DVD).
Still better than the useless CDR/DVD reader drive that I had (which couldn't read any of my burned DVDs). |
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