[rescue] Drives for T1s/V100s

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Fri Sep 5 12:33:18 CDT 2008


A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Joshua Boyd
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:20:26PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> I'm just asking, but what about a USB DVD drive?
>
> That would be unbelieably slow for OS installs.  If I wanted an external
> drive, I could hunt down a SCSI DVD drive, which would be a much better
> speed.

And at least twice as much money.  Or at least that was my experience when
I bought an _internal_ SCSI DVD drive to go in my E450.

I know the laptop drives do work in those systems but I can't recall what
the name of the connecting kit is for them at the moment.  You need the
little back-board and the ribbon cable to do it.
-- 
Mike Hebel

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
		-- Dr. Who



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