Re: Optical drive to MacPro

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Optical drive to MacPro
Date	2016-12-11 02:53 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-12-11, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <584cb4ae$0$55890$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com> 
>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> Since the 2013 MacPro comes with no peripherals, one has to add them
>> manually. Got a SATA to Thunderbolt disk box to support my 4 drives.
>
>> Now, I need to get an optical drive.
>
>> I have a thunderbolt port free on the disk box and on the Mac,  But all
>> 4 USB2 ports are taken.
>
> The 2013 Mac Pro has USB 3.0 ports and each port supports 127 devices.
> Since USB 3 supports 5Gbps, that is far more than any optical drive is
> capable of.

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Optical drive to MacPro JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-10 21:06 -0500
  Re: Optical drive to MacPro Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 02:18 +0000
    Re: Optical drive to MacPro Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-11 02:53 +0000
    Re: Optical drive to MacPro Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-11 03:06 +0000
    Re: Optical drive to MacPro JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-10 23:59 -0500
      Re: Optical drive to MacPro dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-12-11 22:14 +1300
        Re: Optical drive to MacPro nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-11 07:36 -0500
        Re: Optical drive to MacPro JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-11 21:11 -0500
          Re: Optical drive to MacPro dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-12-12 16:30 +1300
            Re: Optical drive to MacPro JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-12 00:51 -0500
              Re: Optical drive to MacPro David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2016-12-12 16:41 -0600
                Re: Optical drive to MacPro JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-13 12:30 -0500
                Re: Optical drive to MacPro Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-13 16:15 -0500
                Re: Optical drive to MacPro Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-13 22:49 +0000
              Re: Optical drive to MacPro dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-12-13 13:17 +1300
                Re: Optical drive to MacPro JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-13 13:22 -0500
          Re: Optical drive to MacPro Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-12 07:03 +0000
            Re: Optical drive to MacPro dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-12-13 13:17 +1300
              Re: Optical drive to MacPro Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-13 05:27 +0000
                Re: Optical drive to MacPro dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-12-13 22:29 +1300
      Re: Optical drive to MacPro Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-11 17:46 +0000
  Re: Optical drive to MacPro Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-11 09:32 -0500
    Re: Optical drive to MacPro Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-12-11 08:45 -0800

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