Re: CD-ROM on a GS

[sane@netaxs.com (Episkopos Wonko)]

KEVIN LOESCH (kloesch@pgh.nauticom.net) wrote:
: 	I was looking at getting a portable CD-ROM and was wondering if it 
: would work on the GS under GS/OS. It is a Media Vision drive(I don't know 
: the actual drive electronics manufactor) and it is a SCSI-2 interface, 
: double speed transfer with a 180ms access time. Will this work on the 
: a GS with a Rev. C apple board and can GS/OS read MS-DOS(iso9660) disks?

The drive *should* work with a RamFAST, but Apple SCSI boards don't 
handle SCSI-2 very well. The drive may work, but may do strange things. 
I've heard of SCSI2 drives not ejecting disks properly, not being 
recognized by the Finder, and other weird stories. I have a RamFAST and a 
SCSI-2 CD-ROM, and it works fine.

As for reading ISO9660, yes, with the HS FST, Your GS should be able to 
access them. Just bear in mind you'll need something like discQuest to 
read and use them.

Regards,
Mark