>> >> SCSI CD-ROMs are pretty cheap, now. Isn't that the best way to go? >> Paul >> >> > I guess that would work-the only problem is that the 6 gig drive I put in > has no OS on it. I have a SCSI CD drive. How would the SCSI CD drive work? > There would be no drivers available for it. > John > I've been able to start up a dead mac from a 3rd party SCSI CD-rom drive before. I have a feeling that once the Mac is desperate to start-up, i.e., no HD, no apple brand CD-ROM, no floppy etc, then it will take just about ANY kind of system disk to run. I say that, because it only started up from it when the HD had no system folder on it. Once that was installed, it refused to start off the cd anymore.
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