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juiceanabolic
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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:01 pm Post subject: Doctor v64 compatible cd-rom drive? |
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Hi Guys,
Managed to get my V64 up and running again the cd-rom doesnt seem to work spins with audio cd in drive but doesnt read and gives a cd-rom error or no drive.
Any idea what compatible models are? i read a while ago it will take practivaly all drives but i dont have any lying around and didnt want to waste money.
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amptor
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: Doctor v64 compatible cd-rom drive? |
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| juiceanabolic wrote: | Hi Guys,
Managed to get my V64 up and running again the cd-rom doesnt seem to work spins with audio cd in drive but doesnt read and gives a cd-rom error or no drive.
Any idea what compatible models are? i read a while ago it will take practivaly all drives but i dont have any lying around and didnt want to waste money.
cheers! |
Mine had a panasonic (matsushita) CDROM drive in it which I took out and replaced with the same model of drive. I might still even have the drive that I took out. It still works but the tray mechanism was a bit clunky that's why I replaced it. I know I have a pile of CDrom drives but I'm not sure what all is there. I'll try to remember to take a look.
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juiceanabolic
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:55 am Post subject: |
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Hi mate,
And thank you very much for the reply. If you do have the time and find the drive that was working please let me know the model number if possible perhaps i can source on ebay! thatd be great. i know the IDE bus works as i have a spare bios chip which i flashed the HDD bios to and that loads games of the HDD fine.
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madman
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty much any IDE CD-ROM will work from my experience. IDE is IDE. |
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amptor
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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It appears that I ewasted it some time ago with a bunch of 486, 386 and 286 equipment that was just sitting in my desk.
I only have some Toshiba CD-ROM drives left now. I do remember that when I tried to use a CD-RW drive it didn't like that, nor did it take a spare DVD-R drive I had laying around.
I guess any IDE CD-ROM might work but I doubt it. I think it is a certain spec and probably most work but not all. Some people used to upgrade to 24x CD-ROM and it worked fine too. The unit I had came with an 8x drive.
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braveblue
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:47 am Post subject: v64 ide cdrom |
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| stock v64 came with liteon 24x model LTN-242 |
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juiceanabolic
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Cheers Braveblue, my replacement just arrived but its an old cd-rw/dvd rom i dont expect itll work in which case ill have a look about see it i cant ebay one of these. Thanks guys.
Am modding my V64 to run both Ozones HDD mod and cd-rom, a DTDP switch should let me switch between the CD-rom and HDD, currently all roms on the HDD load and boot fine!  |
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braveblue
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool, nice work with the dual compatibility! would like to see pictures of your setup |
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