#Sony Laser Library
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Hi All, I'm new on here and don't as yet own a cd drive.
Someone has the Sony Laser Library for sale and I'm intrested as it comes with
six cd's. Does anyone have any good or bad reports about it. I know that it's
not multi-session but not much else.
I don't want to have to replace it in a short time with a better one, so will
it be OK for say 95% of the current IBM cvd's that are available?
Gary
Gary, the Laser Library (CDU-7205) is a good drive and is compatible with most
titles available today, BUT it is not technically MPC-compliant. It also uses
a proprietary Sony, i.e. not SCSI, bus which means you won't be able to chain
additional devices off the controller card in the future as with SCSI. And if
you have visions of heavy video, animation, etc., it's not the speed demon that
some of the higher-end drives are today; but those are still pretty expensive,
and a used LL should be dirt cheap. Sony's tech support kinda notoriously
sucks swamp water, but nobody's seems to shine. You will probably want a good
sound card to go with the drive too, although it'll function minimally with
headphones alone. If it's not coming with one, and the cables necessary to
interconnect the two, be careful. I kinda remember hearing that they're harder
to find in Europe, but I'm not certain of that.
There's a file, Laser3.txt, in Lib. #4 here that should provide some additional
info on the critter.