17 Apr
2005
17 Apr
'05
7:32 p.m.
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:04:09 -0400
Gary Sparkes <mokuba at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm desperate for a scsi drive capable of reading
CD-Rs! If anyone has
one, anyone at all, I'd love to hear from you! (External especailly,
but I can swap drives in an external housing if needed, I guess)
--
I've not had any problem reading CD-Rs in SCSI CDROM drives that I've
salvaged from old Power Macintoshes. I've installed a number of them in
Sparc Ultra 1 boxes and had no problem installing NetBSD and Solaris off
the drives, which I had burned to CD-R media for said purpose.
If you're really _desperate_ for a drive like that, I have a pile of
them and will sell you a couple for $2 each plus shipping. I'm sure if
you're not geographically close to me (midwest United States) you will
have no trouble at all getting your own used Apple CDROM drive.
Anything from the early-PCI Mac era will work, i.e. a drive from a
7200/7300/7500 Power Mac.
-Scott
Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
KB3HAG - FM19t