RE: Which CD-ROM?

[bpvh@shell1.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) wrote:

>I'm getting ready to buy a CD-ROM for my GS, and want to know
>the inside story.  Since (at last I heard) SecondSight
>supports Kodak PhotoCD images, I need a CD-ROM drive capable
>of reading it.  Also, how fast do I need?  I don't want a
>single speed, but will I need anything faster than a double
>speed?  What about discQuest?  Does it support Secondsight,
>or will that be out in the future?  Does discQuest support
>ANY CD I put in the drive?  (data CD, not an actual program
>CD)  Also, I have a RamFAST Rev. D 3.01e 256K. and I have the
>RF.Media drivers.  I would like to get a NEC drive, and
>preferably one with a VERY small footprint.  Any
>recomendations?  I wanna make sure I do this right the first
>time.  :)
>
>Also, what is the difference between the Apple CD-150 and the
>CD-300?  I might just get one of these if I can't find
>something cheaper.

The RamFast SCSI card can use most SCSI CD-ROM drives so you have a
lot of choices.  I do not know the specifics about any CD-ROM drive
other than my Apple CD-150.  There is a IIgs CD-ROM FAQ around
somewhere for more cd-rom drive/scsi card compatibility info.

dQ does not support the SecondSight card right now but it is my
understanding that it will in the future.

dQ supports cd-roms in the discpassage format and, with the the dQ
Encyclopedia add-on, some (all?) Compton's Encyclopedias from 1994. 
Cd-roms containing text, gif, sound files, etc, assuming proper disk
and file format, can be read using the appropriate System 6.0.1
drivers.

The Apple CD-150 is a single speed drive and the CD-300 is a dual
speed drive.  There are probably other differences.

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