cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) (03/19/91)
Here are the responses I've received. The Toshiba mechanism is my choice for compatibility and speed. From: Brian Bechtel <blob@apple.com> I've seen messages from several people indicating that the NEC CDR-35 won't work. I also seen message claiming success while using a Toshiba drive, but I don't remember the model number. ------------- From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se CD Technology PortaCD (NOT the infamous NEC - this is a toshiba mechanism) works just great with my IIfx running A/UX. Installing was a breeze (third time through, that is :-) and I now have various manuals and libraries on the disk, saving disk space. (Oh, the PortaCD is cheap from MacConnection... And it's fast, too (twice as fast as Apples) -------------- From: alex@pluto.dss.com (Alex Smith) I have successfully used a Denon DRD253 drive to install A/UX and to keep rarely used or useless stuff online (using mount etc.). The Mac will mount the HFS partition without any additional software if the drive is attached. This works with some other Apple CDs; for those that won't mount I wrote a little INIT to read in the driver (sometimes Apple zeros out the sbDrvrCount word of the driver descriptor map). You can actually boot A/UX off the CD-ROM -- I have used this to shoehorn A/UX into a 40 mb drive. -------------- From: panix!alexis@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Alexis Rosen) I've had no problems with several Toshibas, several different models. I use drivers from OMI under MacOS (no drivers needed under A/UX). -- Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307