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way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« on: October 02, 2007, 04:19:06 PM »
Is it possible to connect an standard
external CD rom of sorts to one of my 500/2000 machines..
via a scsi connector of some sort or other way?
or ribbon or cable.. etc..


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Re: way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2007, 04:24:24 PM »
Well if you've got SCSI, get a SCSI CD-ROM.

Here's a lowly (but cheap!) quad speed...
http://www.pcliquidator.com/detailproduct.asp?which=386
you'd need to find a caddy for it (kind of a case you put the disk in before you put it in the drive, they're standard AFAIK)
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Re: way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2007, 05:36:55 PM »
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Well if you've got SCSI, get a SCSI CD-ROM.

Here's a lowly (but cheap!) quad speed...
http://www.pcliquidator.com/detailproduct.asp?which=386
you'd need to find a caddy for it (kind of a case you put the disk in before you put it in the drive, they're standard AFAIK)


 Those caddies are not standard, unfortunately.

 A god idea is buy an inexpensive IDE unit and use with a SCSI to IDE converter.
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Re: way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2007, 06:19:19 PM »
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 Those caddies are not standard, unfortunately.


Hmmm shame, there must be one really common type then, I've got 3 that are all the same, and fit in 2 different brands, 3 models, of SCSI drives. Don't know if any of the drives I've got are amiga suitable though, they are mostly old, OLD 2 speed drives, that have some difficulties on a PC with different CD standards. Think they must have been made before the standards were finalised. Quad speed and up, IDE or SCSI are generally a lot safer for compatibility. Didn't have an amiga SCSI interface so didn't worry about it before.
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Re: way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2007, 06:59:55 PM »



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Re: way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2007, 07:02:50 PM »
Looks like you'll need some adapters, Ultra<>25 pin or 50 pin whatever type you've got.
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Re: way to hook a cd rom to a 500 or a 2000
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2007, 07:03:56 PM »
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Those caddies are not standard, unfortunately.

Are you sure? I only know of early Yamaha burners with nonstandard caddies. (yes, I learned it the hard way :-)
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