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First post, by bjwil1991

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Just a quick question before I find and purchase a Panasonic CR-563-B from somewhere out there: can and will the CD drive work in Windows 95 without using the DOS drivers (ex: using its own set of drivers either supplied on the internet or in Windows 95 itself), or would that be impossible? The reason why I'm asking is because I like to have a CD drive that is period correct for the machine when it was manufactured between 1993-1994 and the CD drive that's in there currently isn't working very well (sometimes it doesn't want to read the CD whatsoever, or it's too loud) and the version of Linux I have from 1994 only works with a Panasonic CR-563-B CD drive instead of the ATAPI IDE CD drive (kernel panics when attempting to find the CD Drive and CD itself).

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Reply 1 of 2, by darry

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Going from memory, it worked "fine" (for a 2x 300ms drive) under Windows 95 .
This copy of the hardware compatibility list seems to corroborate that .
http://www.activewin.com/bugs/compat/win95hcl.txt

Reply 2 of 2, by bjwil1991

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The drive works in Windows 95. I had to setup the DOS driver temporarily in order for Windows 95 to install the drivers. Before I did that, I had to repair the motor for the CD-ROM drive that controls the eject mechanism (took one off of a broken CD-ROM drive that lost the laser head from a shattered CD that was in the drive) since the original motor had corrosion on there and it was running very slow and felt like it dropped the voltage.

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