Re: SCSI CD-ROM (was: Old Compaq Server)

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 2,  7:52pm, Zachary Florian wrote:
> Subject: SCSI CD-ROM (was: Old Compaq Server)
> [snip]
> >
> >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...


SCSI-2 is SCSI-2,  it is not at all an "IBM" thing.  In fact most Macs use
SCSI,  or at least they used to.  The real question is whether it will fit in
the drive bay of the Mac.