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| Pioneer D-706S CD-ROM drive |
Posted by: kkritsilas on 2022-03-28 17:51:16
Hi,
Is a Pioneer D-706s CD-ROM drive usable on either a Centris 650 (C650) or a PowerMac 7300/200? I am trying to find a drive for my Centris 650 (factory standard, no higher clock CPU or Nubus SCSI cards), and the 7300/200 is also stock, and this has come up. The D-706S is a 32X CD-ROM, so it can read the CDs faster than the SCSI bus can move the data on the C650, but taking the existing CD-ROM drive out of the 7300/200, moving it to the C650, and using the D-706S to the 7300/200 is a possibility. Question becomes the need for drivers (this is not an Apple drive, so they probably would be required) for either the C650 or 7300/200, and the fit regarding front bezel. The D-706S is a slot load drive.
Does anybody know if there are drivers for the D-706S for Mac OS 7.6.1, 8.1 or 9.2? Do the various hacked versions of the Apple CD-ROM drivers work for the D-706S? |
Posted by: taddy on 2022-04-03 05:06:49
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Posted by: kkritsilas on 2022-04-03 23:06:42
Taddy, thanks for sending me the link to that. It didn't show up when I did a seach. I hope the driver works on the early Mac OS/System versions. Appreciate it. |
Posted by: macintosh2002 on 2022-04-27 00:08:20
Hello, I got a PowerMac 6100/66 with a similar Pioneer DR-706S (should be 36x speed), but without hard drive, so I´ll need that extension too, thank you for sharing, @taddy.
@kkritsilas Could get your drive working with this driver? Do you have further documents / description of that Pioneer drive (technical data sheet)? |
Posted by: kkritsilas on 2022-04-27 00:58:55
My drive appears to be non-functional in that it doesn't read CDs. The CDs are visible in other machines.It does power up, seems to spin up (from the sound) but doesn't read anything. |
Posted by: macintosh2002 on 2022-04-27 02:23:31
My drive is spinning up too and SCSI probe recognizes the drive correctly, but without the extension and MacOS 7.5.5 it could be a problem. I´ll try it with my PM6500 or maybe G3 B&W with adaptec SCSI card and MacOS 9. |
Posted by: macintosh2002 on 2022-04-27 11:53:10
My Pioneer Pioneer DR-706S (product-ID DR-U16S) works great with @taddy extension, thank you very much! |
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