Niels Eliasen wrote:
>
> The CDROM in my trusty O2 has died....
> Can I replace it with any used Macintosh CDROM drive?
> or must it be some specific O2 drive ?
> and a CD-RW drive ... is that possible at all ?

Be warned that not all cdroms will fit the O2 case.
The plastic parts are problematic since you don't
directly push the eject button yourself.
I got a Toshiba cdrom after I found out that a Plextor
won't work.

mfg
Dennis

--
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled through
the snow.

Dennis Grevenstein wrote:

> Niels Eliasen wrote:
>
>>The CDROM in my trusty O2 has died....
>>Can I replace it with any used Macintosh CDROM drive?
>>or must it be some specific O2 drive ?
>>and a CD-RW drive ... is that possible at all ?
>
>
> Be warned that not all cdroms will fit the O2 case.
> The plastic parts are problematic since you don't
> directly push the eject button yourself.
> I got a Toshiba cdrom after I found out that a Plextor
> won't work.

You can also replace it with a Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD drive. Fits
perfectly, no modifications needed (except, maybe, its firmware. Needs
to be at least 1.009 IIRC)

Rainer

>
> mfg
> Dennis
>

> You can also replace it with a Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD drive. Fits
> perfectly, no modifications needed (except, maybe, its firmware. Needs
> to be at least 1.009 IIRC)

Does that mean what I think it means: DVD drive + mplayer / xine / XMMS and
you can play DVDs on IRIX?

UNIX admin wrote:
> Does that mean what I think it means: DVD drive + mplayer / xine / XMMS and
> you can play DVDs on IRIX?

Last time I looked (last year), the Xine DVD code was Linux centric and
was not ported to IRIX. Xine on IRIX will play video files but not a DVD.

Brandon Corey wrote IRIXDiVX which can play unencrypted DVDs.

http://www.blackboxcentral.com/sgimonkey/index.html

Ivan
--
Ivan Rayner
ivanr@sgi.com

Niels Eliasen wrote:
> Hi
> The CDROM in my trusty O2 has died....
> Can I replace it with any used Macintosh CDROM drive?
> or must it be some specific O2 drive ?
> and a CD-RW drive ... is that possible at all ?
>
>

I´m currently working on a LG GSA-4081B DVD multiwriter,
together with an ACARD 7720 SCSIDE adaptor in my O2 R7k.
That didn´t work in my Indigo2 R10k unfortunately :-(

The O2 plastic parts fit or can easily can be adapted to
it with a knife, mechanically better are only the Toshiba
OEM drives SGI used.

As soon as I have the machine running - it´s waiting for
a 600MHz CPU upgrade :-) - I will post some note here and
pics at nekochan.net.

Cheers!
Walther.

Walther wrote:
[...]
> As soon as I have the machine running - it´s waiting for
> a 600MHz CPU upgrade :-) - I will post some note here and
> pics at nekochan.net.
>
> Cheers!
> Walther.

OK, here you are:

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?p=22847#22847