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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Can one make a SCSI CD-ROM work with a PCE/TG16 via expansion bus?]

oooooh nice find there. A white whale for sure. Too bad it didn't work. I guess Hackintosh was my thought process/inspiration. Wishful thinking on my part.

Still kicking myself for selling all my stuff 10 years ago. I guess I'll be hitting up Pawn shops and Estate sales....

I hope someone is enjoying my DUO....

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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Can one make a SCSI CD-ROM work with a PCE/TG16 via expansion bus?]

Awesome, yes that was the thought; to use an "off the shelf" available drive and make a cable from the dock to the drive. Simplistic, perhaps ignorant desires I guess and I'm not technical enough to know how to make it work.

In the end you'd still need the dock/IFU so I guess what's the point really since the caps that wear out are mostly in the dock/IFU anyway.

You're talking me down from the ledge and I appreciate it ;)

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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Can one make a SCSI CD-ROM work with a PCE/TG16 via expansion bus?]

Thanks guys, I figured as much but worth asking. I'm not going to spend the money to do this "right" as you say.

I thought it *might* be possible given all the other connections. Also, the SCSI expansion HuCard that was never released makes me think there could be some work around. The IFU probably just acts as a SCSI card/interface is my thinking.

Agreed that a PCE Duo would be the ideal but even that is more than I want to spend. Maybe my friend in Japan can help source something more affordable.

Ah, well so Magic Engine it is then.

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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Can one make a SCSI CD-ROM work with a PCE/TG16 via expansion bus?]

Hi, I'm new here. Got my TG16 xmas '89 and the CDROM the following xmas...then a DUO. Then sold them all in 2006

Anyway, picked up a TG16 locally and been wanting to pick up a CD system as well but.....prices and re-caps have kept me away from that I'm I'm happy enough with ME for CDs for now.

My main point/question, and I hope it is in the right place to post, is can I use any old readily available SCSI or ATA CD-ROM drive and somehow get it to be recognized by the PCE/TG16 via the 69 pin expansion bus? Seems that it can be done as NEC did it ;) I even have an NEC IDE DVD-RW drive to use.

Basically I figure, the original CD-ROM is a 1x SCSI unit right? So what's to stop anyone from figuring out the pins on the CD-ROM drive dock connector and making it work?

I'm no computer engineer but seems that you could easily pull power, the data bus, the IRQ and whatever else you need to make it work.

This would make it a non-issue if you can't find a CD-ROM system at a good price or if yours fails as it will in time.

I'm sure this has been thought of and discussed before but as I said, I'm new here.

Thanks and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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