10 Mar
1999
10 Mar
'99
10:27 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
That means that only a few CD-ROM drives will be
bootable, such as Toshiba
3301, 3401, and a few old Sony drives -- and all of those will need to be
set up correctly. On the Toshibas, that means a minor internal
modification, unless you get one that was previously used on a Vax,
Sparcstation, or SGI.
Almost any Plextor CD-ROM drive will have a jumper that will enable it to
be used on a host expecting 512k blocks.
I understand that many newer Toshiba CD-ROMs will also work equally well
with 512k or 2048k blocks. As far as I'm aware, of the older Toshiba
CD-ROM drives only the 3201B (3401B? I forget) is modifiable.
Real DEC RRD-42 drives turn up on eBay occasionally, but I understand they
use a non-standard caddy so make sure you get one. I learned this from Tim
Shoppa so I'm sure he can correct me if I'm wrong.
ok
r.