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Posted by: Opardalis on 2017-09-18 11:59:43
I bought this drive off eBay to do an a/ux install, but having a weird issue, when I insert a cd caddy it starts to load then a few seconds later immediately spits it right back out. I've tried different cds, caddys.
When I contacted the seller he claims it was working and maybe it's an issue with jumpers?
Any thoughts before I return it?
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Posted by: rsolberg on 2017-09-18 15:15:47
If the drive's in an external enclosure, does it behave the same way if it's not connected to the Mac? Does the Mac have the requisite extension installed to read the CD-ROM and its filesystem?
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Posted by: Opardalis on 2017-09-18 15:54:02
Yes, it's in an external enclosure, same behavior even when not connected to a scsi bus, including audio cds, it reads for like 1 sec then spits it out.
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Posted by: rsolberg on 2017-09-18 16:58:53
That does seem like a drive issue to me, particularly if it's doing this with commercially pressed CDs and not just CD-R/RWs.
Here are Toshiba's product specs for the drive, which might as well be a service manual for all the information provided. If you want to troubleshoot any further, it might help. I might try setting the "Audio Playback (TEST)" header as detailed in the document. If the laser pickup and logic of the drive are working, it should begin playing an audio CD through the headphone jack upon insertion.
EDIT typo
Toshiba_XM-3301B_Product_Specification_Rev_2_Jul91.pdf
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Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2017-09-24 09:08:09
These drives have notoriously fragile loading trays. User CelGen can tell you ALL about them.
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?40455-Toshiba-SCSI-CD-ROM-Drives
The last one of these drives I had (IDE version, but same tray loader), landed up smashed on a concrete floor in a fit of rage because of that stupid tray sticking.
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Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2017-09-24 13:43:59
Hmm, this is a caddy loading drive? Its likely suffering from bad caps as the Sony drives Apple used suffer from the same problems.
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