Re: CD Rom drive problem

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

: The funny thing is that in order to use an Apple CD300, I had to add
: Sequential's SCSI-2 driver for the Apple Hi-speed card.  Somewhere
: along the line, Apple dropped its own standard and went with the industry.
: The driver is worth getting because it allows the Apple Hi-speed to work
: with all new CD-ROM drives.  Oh, for the Apple CD300 it works with
: the old driver, but no sound comes out.  Sequentia's allows audio to
: work.

That's right, Apple's supplied software only uses Apple's proprietary SCSI
calls for CD audio. All Apple single speed CD drives use these. That'd 
include the CD SC, CD SC Plus, and CD150. Starting with the CD300, they
use the SCSI-2 audio calls, and the proprietary calls don't work. The 
industry had caught up with Apple by that time; you see, when Apple started
making CD drives, no standards existed.
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