On May 29, 2004, at 10:04 pm, Tony Lack wrote:
Hello there,
The tray loading CD-ROM does fit into the 840av.
It does.
I think all the SCSI CD-ROM's are interchangeable in all the Mac's that had them. It's just the fascia panel thats different and causes the problem. A much smaller slot on the caddy type.
There are planty of perfectly good replacement fascias sculling about, I picked up a mint one from a 8100 a friend scrapped fro next to nothing.
I thought the 630 had an IDE drive but may well be mistaken.
Nope - it's SCSI. Only the hard disk is IDE.
It's funny how people think different. I much prefer the caddy system. It seems a lot less clunky than an old and well used 300i or 600i.
Break the caddy and the CD rive is useless. The only way u can render a tray loader useless is by physically breaking the tray, and despite trying a few times (by accident!!) I've never managed it yet.
I've always had a lot less trouble with the caddy units and the external version is so smooth and silent.
That's be because it's also slow :-)
Try finding one of those on ebay! I also use A/UX and need the older drives to run it correctly.
I am not aware of an issue with A/UX requiring anything other than a genuine Apple ROM'd CD drive unit. I could be wrong and I know A/UX is a fickle beast... Maybe requires a 300i or 600i or an older drive?
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