Re: NEC CDR-73 CD-ROM & NeXT???

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From: M Carling
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 00:03

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In article <1992Jul31.230330.3192@iat.holonet.net>  
cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford) writes:
> I already have a NEC CDR-73 CD-ROM reader for a Macintosh, and I would
> like to get it working on my NeXT.  Does anyone know if this is  
possible. 
> I would imagine that I just need the correct device driver, or  
something. 
> If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate any help.


My understanding is that you need a ROM from NEC that fixes a bug of  
theirs that reports the block size as zero. The Mac doesn't care, but the  
NeXT does. Last I heard, NEC didn't think it was worthwhile to correct  
their mistake.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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