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From: chuckl@chips.com (Chuck Linsley)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Are CD ROM drives interchangeable?
Message-ID: <1615@news.chips.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 01:23:02 GMT
References: <661021443@gumby.cs.caltech.edu> <283400020@adaptx1>
Reply-To: chuckl@chips.com (Chuck Linsley)
Organization: Chips and Technologies, San Jose, CA
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In article <283400020@adaptx1> neese@adaptx1.UUCP writes:
>
>>/* ---------- "Are CD ROM drives interchangeable?" ---------- */
>So far as I know, Sony is the only one who has released a CD-ROM based
>on the SCSI-2 spec.
>

Sony _claims_ SCSI-2 compliance, but it ain't necessarily so.  The
drive we have has some interesting non-compliant "features."  For
example, it ignores SDTR messages.  It doesn't reject them, it just
ignores them.

Chuck Linsley
chuckl@chips.com
Mass Storage Operation
Chips and Technologies, Inc.