Replace dvd burner in a macbook pro 1,1

good morning,
  I need to replace a DVD Drive in a Macbook Pro 1,1 A1150 and was wondering if there was a way to put a DL burner in it as I will have it apart anyway.  The current drive loads and reads disks but does not eject them correctly.  Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Yes it works great doesn't it.  I replaced mine the day I got it.  I purchased the parts first and then bought the mac.  I got 2 intel 320's 600gb hard drives.  I purchased an optibay and then put both of the hard drives in the macbook pro and then did a raid 0, so now I have 1.2tb of space.  I also purchased 16gb of memory for it, so that couple with the quad-core i7 2.3Ghz processor it's blazing fast, it starts up in 7 seconds.  I love it.

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