Re: Looking for cheap supported CDROM

Arend Meetsma <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:11:25 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.zoot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Simpson, Ken wrote:

> I currently have a Penguincomputing workstation which contains
> a Yamaha SCSI CDRW. The motherboard doesn't support booting from
> this device, so I'm looking for a cheap supported IDE CDROM drive
> that I can pick up and put in my machine.


Hi Ken,

Just about any ide cdrom you can find will work fine. Make sure it is 
ATAPI, and IDE, not an old 2x one. 

If you want really cheap, find a used 4x, 6x or 8x.

Hope this helps,
Arend