On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, rescue wrote: > Didn't hacked or 3rd party cd-rom drivers exist?
I have some vague memory, but I was thinking that could just be wishful / convenient memory on my part. > That won't handle the boot problem, but the boot checks might not be as > thorough as Disk Setup ??? Well, my 660AV will boot from a Yamaha drive I have. However, MacOS refuses to show the drive after it's installed. So, I'm thinking that a hack such as the one we are discussing might be a full fledged solution. > Plextor CD-ROM SCSI drives used to have a 512 byte block jumper as well. > I don't know about the DVD drives. Plextor makes some great gear. However, I've also had good luck with Yamaha. I have had trouble with Pioneer, but they make the only slot-CDROM (and DVD) drives I know of. Their metal USB drives are also nicely built, pretty, and have a cool design. However, they've been less robust than some others I own (I have an LG drive with much fewer read errors and it's actually slot-driven, too). -Swift