Re: SCSI Interface for A2GS

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <9hfl0h$gjs$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>, 
apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>>2.  Using the above configuration - can you play audio CDs?
>>
> With the Apple HS SCSI card you can play audio CD's with the CD150 and
> earlier SCSI drives.  With standard SCSI drives you can only read normal
> data disks - no audio CD's, using Apple's audio/media player.  An updated
> media player was released for the Ramfast to use with standard SCSI
> drives.  The updated media player for the HS SCSI card was announced by
> Jawaid Bazyar, but never shipped. :-(

Audio CD commands were only added with the SCSI-2 command set. Earlier
drives used commands which were different for each manufacturer.

But didn't Sequential Systems sell a driver which allowed the Apple card to
play audio CDs on any SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive? Or is this the driver that was
never released?

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - Warcraft II
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