Subject: Re: random hardware questions
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Tom Parker <tom@carrott.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/06/2003 12:22:16
Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net> wrote:
>> I've had good luck with old Apple Mac CD-ROM drives and Plextor drives.
>> I think nearly at SCSI CD-ROM that supports 512 byte sectors should
>> work fine for you.
>OK, with HD transfer rates up to 1 MB/sec i guess anything better than 1
>Euro (US$1.11) 6x speed drives off eBay are a waste of money ? :)
The more modern the drive, the more likely it is to handle CDR and CDRW
discs.
My experiance is 2 speed drives don't read CDR, and 4 speed do, but doesn't
read CDRW. I don't know if a 6 speed would read an RW.
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