My CDROM driver stopped working and the drives I have tried are apparently not compatible.
Does anyone here know what I have to look for? I don't need anything fancy, just a CD-ROM drive 🙁
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If it's like my 440CDX, the optical drive is a standard IDE drive that is installed into a modular caddy that slots into the laptop. It should be possible to swap the broken drive in your caddy with one of your other drives, assuming they are IDE (probably you will also need to move the faceplate from the old drive to the new one).
I tried that... The CD-ROM drive was not recognized... 😵
This is odd. Maybe the BIOS requires the same model number as what was originally installed. Or, just a Toshiba branded drive in general (mine shipped with an XM-1502B).
wrote:This is odd. Maybe the BIOS requires the same model number as what was originally installed. Or, just a Toshiba branded drive in general (mine shipped with an XM-1502B).
If I remember correctly then you indeed needed a bios mod so the drive gets recognised. Had the same problem on the satellite 3xxcdt/cds series. Somehow you could either mod the bios or mod the rom in some drives so it became regognised.
Is it a SelectBay drive? In which case you need an actual Toshiba model or clone.
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I think it is select bay. Does anyone know where I can get that modded bios?
wrote:This is odd. Maybe the BIOS requires the same model number as what was originally installed. Or, just a Toshiba branded drive in general (mine shipped with an XM-1502B).
Mine also came with an XM-1502B (October 1997)
