[geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives

[David Jellison]

they replaced a failed drive with a failed drive and then went out of biz
before i could get a second replacement, I must have poor timing. :-(
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives


> On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 12:14, David Jellison wrote:
> > fyi. Smart and (not so)friendly   is out of biz.
>
> Doh, that sucks.  Not sure why you call them (not so)friendly, they
> replaced the only failed drive I ever had without giving me too much of
> a hassle, right at the end of the 3 year warranty.
> Greg
>
> > >>I don't know if "Smart and Friendly" makes plain-old CD-ROM drives,
but
> > > >all of the drives I've ever gotten from them have been jumperable to
> > > >512-byte blocks.
> > > >Greg
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
> > To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 9:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives
> >
> >
> > > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 19:43, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > > > there's about 15 of them on ebay right now.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Anyone know where the current deals are on Sun/SGI bootable
CDROM
> > > > > > drives?
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, but I'm not willing to pay for either the Sun or the SGI brand
> > > > name.  What I'm looking for is a discounter that has 16x or faster
> > > > CDROMs that can do 512Kbyte-blocks so that I can use it on my SGIs
and
> > > > Suns - without waiting painfully long for my current Sun 1x (though
it
> > > > is bulletproof) to load OSs and apps.
> > > >
> > > > Essentially, just looking for a bare drive that I can pop into an
> > > > external case, painted to match my Octane.
> > >
> > > I don't know if "Smart and Friendly" makes plain-old CD-ROM drives,
but
> > > all of the drives I've ever gotten from them have been jumperable to
> > > 512-byte blocks.
> > > Greg
> > >
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