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Article #546Re: Thrid-party CD-ROM drive on a NeXT?
From: Scott Turner
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:23
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:23
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In article <1992Sep9.192219.9569@athena.mit.edu> isako@mtl.mit.edu (Isako Hoshino) writes: |> NEC has a CD-ROM drive, street market priced for about $560 with |> better specs (280 ms access, 300kb/sec transfer rate for Macintosh |> configuration). Can you connect a third-party CD-ROM to a NeXT, |> especially if it was configured either for a Macintosh or IBM-compatible? |> Has anyone done this before? If so, how? Make sure it's a CDR-74. Just today a person at NEC's tech support stated that the CDR-73M/CDR-83M are designed for use with the Trantor T-128 controller only. This person claimed that they required a "ROM upgrade" to work with any other controller. The CDR-74 I have here _does_ work better than my CDR-73M so there is something going on here (the CDR-74 has always been a bit twitchy with write once discs, the CDR-74 is rock solid on the same discs, my CDR-73M also heroic means were needed to install 3.0 using the CDR-73M on my turbo color, it seems to like my slab better...) More details as I learn them... Scotty
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!scott.skidmore.edu!psinntp!psinntp!l5next!scotty From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Thrid-party CD-ROM drive on a NeXT? Message-ID: <1992Sep11.072338.12039@gagetalker.com> Date: 11 Sep 92 07:23:38 GMT References: <1992Sep9.192219.9569@athena.mit.edu> Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com Organization: L5 Computing Lines: 21