Re: Toshiba XM-3301 CD-ROM: will it work?

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From: Scott Turner
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 03:12

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In article <1992Oct30.001211.23061@news.mentorg.com> brianc@dc_scom (Brian  
Caslis @ SST) writes:
|> I don't have the CD PortaDrive, but I have a CD drive from
|> HP that uses the same XM-3301 drive mechanism and it works
|> fine for both the NeXT 3.0 CD and audio CD's.
Ah if it were only as simple as wether the drives worked with discs.

The real problem is getting the drives to work with the NeXT, no matter what  
disc is inserted.

I personally have hooked several XM-3301B's to my NeXTen and had them work.
But I've had reports from other people that these puppies didn't perform when
attached to their Turbo stations. I have a Turbo color station so I don't
know what their problem was, but I've noticed that the behaviour of the SCSI
buss on the NeXT changes from version to version of NeXTSTEP.

I've also found that with the NEC drives that varying the NBUF setting in
the kernel helps limp the drives along when they're feeling poorly about a
particular NeXT/NeXTSTEP combo.

Scotty

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