Thread: Possible Pioneer 108 PI/PO scan = PI/PO scan for NEC 3500 possible ?
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Old 16-11-2004   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Possible Pioneer 108 PI/PO scan = PI/PO scan for NEC 3500 possible ?
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Originally Posted by ArchV
I was under the impression that NEC and Pioneer drives were exactly same at hardware level & only differnt at Firmware. Is that not the case ?
No.

They share the same chipset. Which is kinda like saying "Windows and Linux can both run on the same x86 CPU." They are two very different drives, just like Windows and Linux are two very different operating systems.
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