[geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives

[David Jellison]

fyi. Smart and (not so)friendly   is out of biz.
>>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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