[geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 12:14, David Jellison wrote:
> fyi. Smart and (not so)friendly   is out of biz.

Doh, that sucks.  Not sure why you call them (not so)friendly, they
replaced the only failed drive I ever had without giving me too much of
a hassle, right at the end of the 3 year warranty.
	Greg

> >>I don't know if "Smart and Friendly" makes plain-old CD-ROM drives, but
> > >all of the drives I've ever gotten from them have been jumperable to
> > >512-byte blocks.
> > >Greg
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
> To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun/SGI CDROM drives
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 19:43, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > > there's about 15 of them on ebay right now.
> > > >
> > > > > Anyone know where the current deals are on Sun/SGI bootable CDROM
> > > > > drives?
> > >
> > > Yeah, but I'm not willing to pay for either the Sun or the SGI brand
> > > name.  What I'm looking for is a discounter that has 16x or faster
> > > CDROMs that can do 512Kbyte-blocks so that I can use it on my SGIs and
> > > Suns - without waiting painfully long for my current Sun 1x (though it
> > > is bulletproof) to load OSs and apps.
> > >
> > > Essentially, just looking for a bare drive that I can pop into an
> > > external case, painted to match my Octane.
> > 
> > I don't know if "Smart and Friendly" makes plain-old CD-ROM drives, but
> > all of the drives I've ever gotten from them have been jumperable to
> > 512-byte blocks.
> > Greg
> > 
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