Lombard decision making problems (burner related)
Submitted by montag on March 30, 2006 - 8:59am.
PowerPC Macs
The following is a copy/paste from somewhere else, so I hope it's easy to follow.
Here's the deal. I have a lombard (or do you prefer 101?) headed my way. I also have the SCSI adapter, and I have a yamaha external burner. I think I have the cables I need to connect it all, but they are all BURIED in the back of my storage place. The three things that are bothering me are:
1. I don't know for sure if the drive works, because I've never tested it.
2. I'm not 100% sure that I have all the cabling bits, because/and...
3. The cabling stuff is a messy arrangement. I have the L shaped HDI 30 to 25 pin adapter, then a 25 pin to Centronics 50 cable, then a Centronics to HD (?) 50 adapter.
This leaves me with a few options:
1. Use what I have, cracking open the drive case and putting a jumper on the "terminator" posts on the drive. The big plus on this one is it's free.
2. Same as above, Except find the PowerBook to Jaz drive cable, which I believe has the two correct ends on it.
3. Get a USB burner and suffer through the long burn time.
4. Get a USB2 burner and a USB2 cardbus card. The downsides on this one is the cost, and that I'll need to pull my wireless card out every time I want to burn a CD.
I know this is kind of long, but what would you do? I'm leaning towards 2 and 3 myself.