6100 and 2.2

[Thomas Carlson]

Shawn,

My 300 is flaky with some CD-ROM's, too.  Lorenzo could splurge and pop for
a 600 for $10.

Tom

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:03:16 -0700
> Thomas Carlson <tcarls@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Lorenzo,
>> 
>> Swapping a cdrom drive is not that big a deal.  A Google search
>> (Powermac 6100 parts cdrom) came up with the following:
>> 
>> http://www.timco-computers.com/macparts.html
>> 
>> A venerable Apple CD 300 Internal SCSI like mine will set you back $5
>> US plus shipping.  They slide right in and out in a few minutes.  You
>> should check for local sources first, though.  Many of the old
>> Powermac 6100s are just given away for junk.
>> 
>> Hope you find a way.
> There is one small problem with this, if you're using a downloaded and
> burned ISO, the 300i is VERY flaky with CD-R's, my 6100 runs MkLinux,
> and I never did get it to install with the stock 300i, I had an ancient
> old caddy-style Toshiba that reads CD-R's just fine though, and plugged
> it into the external SCSI bus, and it installed fine from there.  I'd
> recommend picking up a 600i or 800i if you're going to use many CD-R's
> with this system......   course, YMMV
> 
> --Shawn
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