CD-ROM Transport?

[Dowland]

Does anyone know if a pc cd or dvd-rom can be connected to a deck cd player replacing its original transport?. If no, are there any other choices apart from phlips pro trasports?
Thanks everyone

 

[Dave 2238b]

Dunno, but take a look at this. I'm gonna try it.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue3/cdrom.htm

 

[zakezuke]

Originally posted by Dave 2238b
Dunno, but take a look at this. I'm gonna try it.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue3/cdrom.htm

Oh yea, just about "any" old CD-rom drive can serve as a stand alone unit, just missing a few minor featurs such as well, i'll list the buttons that are typical.

[eject]

Depending on the drive... there sometimes are front controls for [play] that tends to double as "next track". Othertimes there is a jumper to serve that purpose.

Searching for vintage CD-roms there's only one that comes to mind. The Toshiba xm-3401b, also a caddy unit, was noted as being one of the few drives that was pre-prohibit-digital copy. Very popular among geeks who wanted to just play tracks though the network.

The NEC CDR-602 is one of those drives very popular for users who are constructing stand-alone mp3 players, important note being it's sub 12x speed means there isn't much in the way of spin up time, so no 10second delay inserting a disk and no garish airplane engine spinup. I keep an older generation NEC 4x speed around cause it just won't die.

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Not too sure about replacing the transport though, most of the hack jobs i've researched have involved replacing transport with cd-rom and total revamp of the electronics to support file read.