[rescue] RS/6000 CD drives

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 Richard.Sandwell at roebry.co.uk wrote:

> Does the RS/6000 (in this case, a 7024 E30 circa 1997) need a CDROM
> drive capable of doing the 512/2048 size trick like the Sun/NeXT/SGI
> ones do? Or will it use a standard SCSI CDROM?

It not only needs 512B sectors, it needs something to cater to its finicky
requirements.  Get an IBM or Plextor.  Most Toshibas will not work (the
XM4101 1/3 height one will, but that's the only one I know of), so just
stick with IBM or Plextor.

Peace...  Sridhar