Pioneer D-706S CD-ROM drive

[kkritsilas]

Hi,

Is a Pioneer D-706s CD-ROM drive usable on either a Centris 650 (C650) or a PowerMac 7300/200? I am trying to find a drive for my Centris 650 (factory standard, no higher clock CPU or Nubus SCSI cards), and the 7300/200 is also stock, and this has come up. The D-706S is a 32X CD-ROM, so it can read the CDs faster than the SCSI bus can move the data on the C650, but taking the existing CD-ROM drive out of the 7300/200, moving it to the C650, and using the D-706S to the 7300/200 is a possibility. Question becomes the need for drivers (this is not an Apple drive, so they probably would be required) for either the C650 or 7300/200, and the fit regarding front bezel. The D-706S is a slot load drive.

Does anybody know if there are drivers for the D-706S for Mac OS 7.6.1, 8.1 or 9.2? Do the various hacked versions of the Apple CD-ROM drivers work for the D-706S?

 

[taddy]

https://jpn.pioneer/ja/comp/download/CDROM_Driver/Pioneer_CD-ROM_240.sea.sit

 

[kkritsilas]

Taddy, thanks for sending me the link to that. It didn't show up when I did a seach. I hope the driver works on the early Mac OS/System versions. Appreciate it.

 

[macintosh2002]

Hello, I got a PowerMac 6100/66 with a similar Pioneer DR-706S (should be 36x speed), but without hard drive, so I´ll need that extension too, thank you for sharing, @taddy.
@kkritsilas Could get your drive working with this driver? Do you have further documents / description of that Pioneer drive (technical data sheet)?

 

[kkritsilas]

My drive appears to be non-functional in that it doesn't read CDs. The CDs are visible in other machines.It does power up, seems to spin up (from the sound) but doesn't read anything.

 

[macintosh2002]

My drive is spinning up too and SCSI probe recognizes the drive correctly, but without the extension and MacOS 7.5.5 it could be a problem. I´ll try it with my PM6500 or maybe G3 B&W with adaptec SCSI card and MacOS 9.

 

[macintosh2002]

My Pioneer Pioneer DR-706S (product-ID DR-U16S) works great with @taddy extension, thank you very much!