[ltp] T30: Experience with adding a DVD drive

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 19:49:04 +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:

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> One issue was the bezel - the TP T30 has its IRDA port at the bottom
> right corner of where the drive goes, and the bezel was obscuring it.
> It also didnt allow the drive to lock in 100%, which caused a few
> coasters when the drive suddenly popped out of the bay. A hot knife
> and a bit of careful whittling on the bezel fixed that problem, and
> now everything works just A-OK.

I bought a used ThinkPad CDROM drive at eBay for 15 EUR, removed the
frame and the bezel and used it for the naked CD-RW/DVD burner I bought
at alternate.de. To make the bezel from the CDROM fit on the burner, I
used a little bit of strong glue. Then I simply sold the naked CDROM
drive for 15 EUR. :-)

Regards,
Tino