Re: Which CD-ROM?

[gtolar@blkbox.com (Glynne Tolar)]

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

I don't know if you consider $400 cheap.  But I'm impressed that Toshiba 
makes a 4x drive for such a low price.  That is an external drive and it 
is fast.  It will read all formats.  It even supports reading of audio CD 
data.  Though currently no software for the II uses this feature.  I've 
wrote a hack that does it on an NEC 3x drive I was borrowing.

Anyway, I wish I had one of these.  I only have a NEC CDR-25 which is a 
1x drive.  It is still a nice drive.  And I paid a very nice price.  I 
don't think it supports photo CD though.  <sigh>  Nor audio CD data 
reading.  It will play CDs fine.