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- From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
- Subject: Re: Can you use any CDROM drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.224721.9318@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Aug17.184219.9454@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:47:21 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Aug17.184219.9454@cco.caltech.edu> stuart@cco.caltech.edu
- (Stuart Wagner) writes:
- >
- > I have seen that the NeXT CD-ROM drive can be used on other systems,
- does this
- > mean that I can use a non-NeXT CD-ROM drive with my cube?
-
- If it is a SCSI CD-ROM drive, it *should* work. However, some don't. The
- first generation of Apple CD-ROM drives (the CD-ROM SC) had the internal
- cable wrong. Apples don't care. NeXTs do. Some drives report a block size
- of zero instead of 2048 bytes. Some computers don't care. The NeXT does.
-
- M Carling
- Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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