>Almost any Plextor CD-ROM drive will have a jumper that will enable it to
>be used on a host expecting 512k blocks.
>I understand that many newer Toshiba CD-ROMs will also work equally well
>with 512k or 2048k blocks. As far as I'm aware, of the older Toshiba
>CD-ROM drives only the 3201B (3401B? I forget) is modifiable.
I think you mean "512" and "2048" instead of "512k" and "2048k" :-).
(At least you aren't talking about your processor speed in milliHertz!)
>Real DEC RRD-42 drives turn up on eBay occasionally, but I understand they
>use a non-standard caddy so make sure you get one. I learned this from Tim
>Shoppa so I'm sure he can correct me if I'm wrong.
RRD40's take non-standard caddies. I'm not sure about RRD42's off the top
of my head.
They're also as slow as molasses. I'd estimate, in modern "X" speed terms,
that a RRD40 is about 0.1X (i.e. if you're lucky you get one sector off
every ten revolutions.)
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Received on Wed Mar 10 1999 - 19:41:14 GMT