A CD-ROM that is compatible with the 16700A LA!

[Mark Wickens]

See if you can get hold of an old Plextor SCSI drive - they tend to have
good compatibility with older kit.

On 28 February 2018 at 06:12, Alexandre Souza via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> try to change sector size on your external cd from 512 to 2048 bytes or
> vice-versa. It is a jumper behind the drive.
>
>
> 2018-02-28 3:01 GMT-03:00 Richard Pope via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
>
> > Hello all,
> >  . . . . For those of you who having not been following my trials and
> > tribulations with a 16700A in another topic here is a partial update. I
> > received this LA from a benefactor who has stepped forward. A real big
> > thanks to him. I have run into that incompatibility problem with External
> > CD-ROM Drives.
> >  . . . . I am disabled and partially housebound. I am living on SSD so
> > money is very tight for me. I am looking for a CD-ROM Drive for little or
> > nothing that is compatible with the 16700A I have an NEC 3x Drive that
> uses
> > the CD Carriers. Remember those. I have installed this and a Maxtor 245MB
> > SCSI drive in an External SCSI box. The Termination on the CD-ROM Drive
> is
> > turned off and I removed the Termination resistors on the HDD. I have a
> > Terminator installed on the end of the SCSI bus on the External Case.
> Could
> > someone please help me out? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
> > GOD Bless and Thanks,
> > rich!
> >
> >
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