Mark Rode, Thanks for your suggestion. In fact, I already have an external
Plextor DVD burner. It works fine plugged into one of my USB-2 plugs.
However I travel in a very small RV almost all the time and I want my laptop
to be able to copy, edit and burn DVD's without any additional wires or
gadgets. It is a big pain to set up the plextor in the RV because of space
limitations and the Plextor requires A/C power from my battery inverter
system. I'm just guessing that the DVD RW double layer is supported by
Windows XP and will be plug and play if I can solve the hardware issues.
Seems to me the problem is what form factor or other description is applied
to the new notebook DVD burners and what were the factors and specs or
descriptions of the old CD/DVD reader that I have in my system now? Where
can I get a new internal burner? Thanks for your time.   John Smith


>From: Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Upgrade to DVDRW
>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:38:48 -0700
>
>I have a T23 myself. Your best bet is going to be to get yourself a PMCIA
>USB2 card, and then plug an External DVD burner into it. Or make your own
>external burner by getting a five and a half inch USB2, self
>powered,  external drive bay, and the DVD burner of your choice. Then just
>plug that into your PMCIA USB2 card and use it like any USB drive. This is
>what I do.
>
>  One caveat ...you will need to be using XP or Windows 2000 Service Pack
>4.
>
>Rode
>The NOSPIN Group
>http://www.freepctech.com/rode/
>
>At 09:11 PM 10/12/2005, you wrote:
>>I have an IBM Thinkpad T23 type 2647 notebook computer. It currently has a
>>CD/DVD reader in the ultrabay. I would like to upgrade to a combination
>>CD/Double Layer DVD/RW. Can anyone tell me where to find one? As far as I
>>can tell IBM does not offer one. Can I buy a DVD/RW notebook drive from
>>another manufacturer and exchange the internals to fit the drive currently
>>in my ultrabay? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
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