Re: 1400 CD drive options?

[Tom and Lisa P]

On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 04:36 PM, Dan K wrote:

Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
Is there any way yet to put a faster or -RW drive in a 6X carrier?  The
last I read you could put a 24X -RW drive in, but only if you had the
12X CD module to start with.  And that concurs with the guy who is
always selling the 24X -RW internals on ebay...


yah, before I spread much more FUD, it was my error assuming that 
the 24X TEAC mechanisms referred to often on ebay and on the page 
Tom mentioned were -RW... it is just a faster CDROM drive.

B.
One word of warning:  Some of the TEAC mechanisms wont work out of 
the box in a 1400 as some are cable select.  Although someone figured 
out how to fix that little problem.

Mad Dog

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Re: 1400 CD drive options?

[Brian]

On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 04:36 PM, Dan K wrote:

Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
Is there any way yet to put a faster or -RW drive in a 6X carrier?  
The
last I read you could put a 24X -RW drive in, but only if you had the
12X CD module to start with.  And that concurs with the guy who is
always selling the 24X -RW internals on ebay...



yah, before I spread much more FUD, it was my error assuming that the 
24X TEAC mechanisms referred to often on ebay and on the page Tom 
mentioned were -RW... it is just a faster CDROM drive.

B.

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Re: 1400 CD drive options?

[Brian]

On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 10:04 PM, Tom and Lisa P wrote:

As far as I know, no one has sucessfully been able to burn a CD using 
an internal CDR/W/ on a 1400.  You can put one in (I forget the 
model), and it will read fine, but not burn.  IIRC.

OK, that helps. I've got an external (tiny) SCSI drive, that burns at 
1X, I guess I'll keep using that for portable Cd options (it's a cute 
drive, -RW, Ricoh MP8040SE- works with Toast 5, I've been meaning to 
try it with an older version of Toast since v5 won't show the progress 
indicator properly).

Thanks,

Brian
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Re: 1400 CD drive options?

[Dan K]

Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
>Is there any way yet to put a faster or -RW drive in a 6X carrier?  The 
>last I read you could put a 24X -RW drive in, but only if you had the 
>12X CD module to start with.  And that concurs with the guy who is 
>always selling the 24X -RW internals on ebay...

I'm not aware of any CD-RW device using the same physical interface used 
in the 6x/8x 1400 CD drives. The easiest, simplest and probably cheapest 
path to a modern optical drive is to acquire a 12x EBM with its standard 
mechanism interface connector.

see my EBM page for more infos:


One could however use a 6x/8x EBM as a HD EBM:


Mad Dog Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chimed in:
>As far as I know, no one has sucessfully been able to burn a CD using 
>an internal CDR/W/ on a 1400.  You can put one in (I forget the 
>model), and it will read fine, but not burn.  IIRC.

I've read (Japanese page of course! :-) that "B's Recorder Gold" can burn 
to a 1400 EBM CD-RW. However I haven't been able to track down that sw 
myself, so can't confirm or deny.

and more from MD:
>Now, again, IIRC, you can replace the 6x with a TEAC 12x mechanism, 
>the 8x for a 16x TEAC, and a 12x for a 24X TEAC.  Not exactly sure 
>about the 6x swap though.

MD, I'm not aware of those other mechanisms to which you refer, but I see 
no reason an 8x mechanism wouldn't fit a 6x EBM. Not that that matters a 
whole heck of a lot. If those faster Teac mechanisms (with that 
particular IF) are out there, they are likely not very common.

Dan K

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Re: 1400 CD drive options?

[Tom and Lisa P]

So, I've finally got around to moving my 1400 setup onto a "working" 
1400 mainboard, the original one, for some reason both the CD and 
floppy interfaces were dead (no obvious cracks or anything on the 
little support pieces, that's about all I checked).

Anyway I have one working 6X CD module and one non working 6X module 
(that sounds like it just needs the laser refocussed, have to try 
that sometime).

Is there any way yet to put a faster or -RW drive in a 6X carrier? 
The last I read you could put a 24X -RW drive in, but only if you 
had the 12X CD module to start with.  And that concurs with the guy 
who is always selling the 24X -RW internals on ebay...

Thanks for thoughts;

Brian
As far as I know, no one has sucessfully been able to burn a CD using 
an internal CDR/W/ on a 1400.  You can put one in (I forget the 
model), and it will read fine, but not burn.  IIRC.

Now, again, IIRC, you can replace the 6x with a TEAC 12x mechanism, 
the 8x for a 16x TEAC, and a 12x for a 24X TEAC.  Not exactly sure 
about the 6x swap though.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gionpeters//pb1400.htm

thanks,

Mad Dog

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1400 CD drive options?

[Brian]

So, I've finally got around to moving my 1400 setup onto a "working" 
1400 mainboard, the original one, for some reason both the CD and 
floppy interfaces were dead (no obvious cracks or anything on the 
little support pieces, that's about all I checked).

Anyway I have one working 6X CD module and one non working 6X module 
(that sounds like it just needs the laser refocussed, have to try that 
sometime).

Is there any way yet to put a faster or -RW drive in a 6X carrier?  The 
last I read you could put a 24X -RW drive in, but only if you had the 
12X CD module to start with.  And that concurs with the guy who is 
always selling the 24X -RW internals on ebay...

Thanks for thoughts;

Brian

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