Ron
>The CDTV drive is a commonplace model that presumably could be
>replaced or salvaged to another system
This message of yours is quite old, but I wonder if I could bring up the
subject again…
I tried to use the CDTV CD-drive on a PC with a standard Panasonic interface,
but with no success. The interface is supposed to support models 521-B, 522,
523 & 562. The CDTV drive appears to be marked (GR)511(-S).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone succesfully used the drive
anywhere? Or is the CDTV useless, even as salvage?! …sigh
Alex
I later learned that the CDTV drive is a customized Sony make that
requires a special firmware controller; IDE and SCSI won't do the trick,
unless you can hack some software. However, others I have talked with
insist it is possible to put a replacement CD-ROM drive *in* a CDTV,
though I don't have any details to share.