3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
10:50 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've had very good luck with an external Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive I
purchased new in '95 for my PowerBook 520c. It has worked on everything
I've connected it to. I've used it on both a Mac and PC laptop, and on
numerous DEC, SUN, and Amiga systems. My only SGI systems have built in
CD-ROM's. Another likely source would be old Sun Hardware.
I use Toshiba XM-4101s, the third-height one.
Peace... Sridhar
My 3100/30 boots fine off the Hobbyist VMS disc using
my
boots-anything Apple CD300 (aka Sony) drive.
You got there first :-) Pulls of drives from old Apple systems seem
like a good bet - I've used a few on various machines which need a 512
byte block size. I normally use an Apple CD600, but it isn't quite
perfect - some SGI systems don't like it for some reason (others do,
as does everything non-SGI I've hooked it up to)