[rescue] CD ROM

[Joshua D. Boyd]

The drive, case, and cable each set me back $20.  Perhaps a bit high, but
I didn't have to pay shipping on it, and I bought it from the same guy who
sold me my HP machine (at the same time as I bought the HP) because he
said that it would work to boot the HP.  He is in Canada somewhere (don't
have the where handy).  I wouldn't recommend doing business with him, I
don't think.  The drive arrived with unconnected ports (meaning that one
of the cases external ports wasn't connected to the case) and a broken
drive door.  Next time, I'm just going to pay the extra and get something
from someone that I can drive to to complain when things go south.  

BTW, does anyone know, what is the resolution that the HP 712/80 machines
boot at?  I hooked a monitor to that machine that can easily to 1024x768
well, but nothing shows up on the display.

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Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Bran Tregare wrote:

> >Anyway, I'm having trouble getting the scsi CD-ROM I bought for my HP and
> >SS2 to work.  However, I notive that the CD-RW that I bought (yamaha
> >CDRW4260t) has a jumper labeled block size.  Does this mean that if I swap
> >it to the external bay it should be able to boot the machines that require
> >a 512block?  That would be convienient, since I wanted to get an external
> >case for that drive anyway.
> Where's you find that beastie and how much did it set you back :)  and do 
> they have more :)  I just dropped my Plextor 4x cd-rom off a shelf onto my 
> foot :( and the mechanism is partially hosed :(  (won't boot on suns 
> anymore but i can usually mount cd's with it :( )