>As for a CD drive for your PB, all I can tell you is I use a replaced cd >drive out of my mac, I replaced it with a cdrw, but I need to be able to >boot from cd so I hooked the old cd up to the unit via scsi cable with the >hdi-30 adapter. You can find a good Apple rommed cd all over on the lem swap >list. You don't actually need an Apple-ROMed CD to boot from one. So long as the CD is truly bootable (i.e., it's an OEM system CD, or a system CD which has been made 'bootable' with boot blocks put on it by Toast), it'll boot off virtually anything. My Yamaha SCSI CDRW will boot the Wallstreet & Lombard (and, in the old days, 5300 and 190) off any bootable CD or CDRW. The problem with the Apple ones is, while they're v. sturdy and last forever, they boot at 2x or 4x, which is probably fine for 7.5, but not for 8.5 or something.
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