Well, I bought an old Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD/CD drive. They were commonly used on Sun servers, and of a similar vintage as the PE2400, so thought I would try it. I installed it in place of the Dell CD drive, so no splitter involved. The Adaptec controller finds and recognizes it just fine, but I can't boot from it. I've tried known-bootable CDs and DVDs, but no dice. I verified the SCSI ID is the same as the CD was, and the 7880 setup is still set to look for that as a bootable device. The problem is, although it lights up and is shown on the SCSI device list, the eject feature doesn't work. I've had to use the paperclip trick to open it, so now I'm thinking it may be a bad unit in ways other than just a sticky tray / failed eject motor. So... risk it and try another one? Anyone else have any experience with this issue? I don't know how to split a 2 or 3 GB Linux distro into multiple CDs, where the first one will boot and prompt for the next, etc. so I really want to find a DVD solution. Thanks again for any help!
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