[geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives

[Gregory Leblanc]

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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