[geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives

[Tom Borton]

Plextor offers their own refurbished drives through their direct sales
phone lines.  The price list at:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/pdfs/refurb_pricelist.pdf
lists a 17x/40x (CAV) Ultra-SCSI CD-ROM for $69 or UW for $74.  I've
used a Plextor 12x (CLV) on SPARC machines with the 512-byte-block
jumper after I pulled it off a PC.

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Jonathan C. Patschke
Sent: 31 March 2002 20:29
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives


> Anyone know where the current deals are on Sun/SGI bootable CDROM
> drives?

NECs don't work.  Some Toshibas work.  Every Pioneer and Plextor I've
ever
tried has worked beautifully and even had the 512/2k jumper so that you
could use it on a PC or Macintosh.

I've got a 40x Pioneer in my Indigo2, and, despite the slghtly
nonstandard
form factor (It's just a tiny bit too short, depthwise, making it "fun"
to
extract from the case), I'm very happy with it.  At $previousOrkPlace,
we
had a Plextor, and it never gave any problems, either.

--Jonathan