SCSI CD-ROM (was: Old Compaq Server)

["Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/prod_disp.asp?cat=MultiMedia
>To be honest the $14.75+S&H drive is only a 4x.  A "modern" drive costs
more,
> but on a 486 I can't image it would make that much diffrence.
>

anyone know if that drive would work on a Mac Performa? strangest thing, it
uses an IDE HDD but the CD-ROM is SCSI (not sure what generation) and i'm
looking for a replacement for my parent's CD-ROM drive cause there's is gone
nuts and died (nothing else i can possibly see to be the problem, it just
doesn't seem to be spinning anymore. i put in a laser cleaning CD just in
case it needed to be cleaned, but that didn't help. anyhow that's another
situation i have) but is that likely to work or not or it's possible, but
not a 100% certainty or what? i'm not horribly familiar with the
IBM-compatible world of SCSI and whether it's very compatible with the Mac
world or not...

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