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I did try a music CD but the drive would spin down after 2 attempts to read it and shut off the main motor.

Totally fine, I ended up selling this unit unfortunately. I assume with great difficulty you could mod the later PPC boards into a LC575, in the same way you do a Takky mod to a Color Classic.

Guess I’m looking for a 240mhz Japanese unit then!

I can confirm, this unit is the caddy loader. It seems like a later/early revision of the drives didn’t have the leaky caps.

The thing is it doesn’t have the caps that people normally point out as leaking. I’m wondering if the laser diode has died (or is weak and unable to read CDs).

I recently picked up a PowerBook 2400C that was upgraded to a G3/400mhz + 80mb of RAM, but was originally a (I believe) US 180mhz model. During my readings I remember hearing about modifying the 2400C to support cardbus cards, which involved cutting two wires on the board. I went for it...

Alright, got the KXL-810A. Good news, it’s the thing I bought. Bad news, it’s not working. Plays audio CDs fine but when it’s hooked up to my PowerBook 2400, with the card it doesn’t pop up at all and directly connecting it to the SCSI bus results in the same problem except with CDT, which pops...

I believe there are a couple adjustment pots but I do want to wait till I get more advice before I start tweaking those. AFAIK these are old enough to not use belts.

Got an AppleCD SD that doesn’t seem to work. I took it apart to find that it didn’t have the usual leaky caps, however it also doesn’t seem to read CDs. Put in my Apple Legacy CD (the 7.6.1 variant) that I burned to find that it flashes the orange light up front twice before slowly spinning the...

That looks like it!

https://ebay.us/m/EHpkRf Ended up buying this. It seems to be mistagged but if it’s the 20x drive this should be a good deal. Has a SCSI port on the back too. Wish I could find one of those HDI-30 to HD50 cables.

Something like that would be fun to mess with! A small portable CD drive that can hook up to SCSI or PCMCIA.

Fair point, but I feel like during portable use you’d want the PCMCIA slot CD drive over the giant bulky SCSI cable and the big drive.

See above. Curious on if there’s any support for booting off of these from the PowerBook 500 Series to the 2400C. If so, are there any specifics that should be known or will any work?

Yeah I’ve been reading through your guys attempts on reviving the batteries. Good thing I didn’t wire it, guess I’m gonna have to find a 15v 1A brick and add that for charging the battery.