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SCSI DVD-rom suggestions

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FatMan42

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Can anybody recommend a particular SCSI DVD-rom? It's for a standard case (i.e. 5 1/4"), it's gonna run on an Adaptec 19160 and it's mainly for watching movies, if that's relevant. I'm looking at getting the Pioneer U05s (same as 305s, I believe) unless there's better drives out there. A quiet drive would be a bonus. I've owned a Pioneer 105s and that was quite loud, by my reference. It HAS to be either region-unlocked or have upgraded firmware available (loads here).

Thanks...
Fatman
 
i had a toshiba 1401.. was a nice drive.. and has a hacked firmware for region free (tested and works). It was pretty quiet from what i've used.. and playing dvd's will be 1x anyway.. so it should be quiet for any drive
 
Thanks. Looks like the Pioneer's winning - it's slot-loading. Can there really be that few SCSI DVDs out there? Even when I do a Pricewatch search on "SCSI DVD" only those models get returned, so maybe there's simply not a lot of choice. Anybody else know any more...?
 
I would not get a Pioneer dvd scsi drive if you plan on playing copy protected games.

ie. Diablo2 I had a 305s and it would not read the game cd on startup. This was with the original cd. Also the expansion cd wouldn't
work either.

I switched out the drive w/ my toshiba & plextor, both work same hardware.

I have a P4-1.7 w/ 1gig ram & 29160N controller w/ 2 36g Atlas10k'2

Jose
 
Jose - do you know why the 305s wouldn't play ball? I will play copy-protected games on that PC - so this may be an issue for me.

So - let's get this straight... the software wouldn't work on the Pioneer SCSI drive, but it would work on another SCSI drive (both Toshiba and Plextor - two SCSI DVDs?)? Curious - did you follow it up?

I've no qualms about going with either the Tosh or the Pioneer - but reports like this worry me. The Pioneer looks a little cheaper, but there MUST be more drives out there...
 
The plextor was a cdrw drive & the toshiba is a dvd drive, both worked w/ Diablo2.

The tech support for Diablo said they would get back to me. 😛

I got tired of waiting around after sending all the info they requested. ie my register under w2k ~10mb

Even the windvd software I got w/ my gf3 wouldn't work.

You can check cdrinfo and other such sites. They rate the dvd perf. of the Pioneer as one of the fastest, but it performed poorely on
sub code channel info.

Regards
Jose
 
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