SCSI CD drive capable of reading CD-R

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Sun Apr 17 18:01:12 CDT 2005


Dan wrote:
> What machine are you talking about ?, Do you mean a 512k block size
> ie. Dec, Sun, mac etc.

That's 512 *byte* block size, not K.  As opposed to the normal 2048 byte
(2K) block size.

Macs do not need 512 byte block CD-ROM drives.  Only older non-PC
workstations and servers normally need that.

A lot of Toshiba drives had a jump to configure the drive for 512 byte
blocks.

Eric



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