Re: Which CD-ROM?

[mquattro@chat.carleton.ca (Michael Quattrocchi)]

Glynne Tolar (gtolar@blkbox.com) wrote:

> 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 

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> don't think it supports photo CD though.  <sigh>  Nor audio CD data 
> reading.  It will play CDs fine.

what exactly do you mean by audio CD's? Most of the SCSI CDROM drives
can be used to read audio cd's; either through the RFMedia drivers, or
via the external controls on their front panel...
 
now, if you mean the transmission of the audio data across the scsi
bus, then that's a different story.... reportedly, the NEC drives are
incapable of doing this, but i'm yet to see any hard evidence through
testing by my own means... besides, I know of no II software that
accesses these features currently, and i'm unaware as to whether the
RAMFast card has had provisions made for this...
  
I had a NEC-CDR38 for a day; took it back because it wouldn't play
audio cd's without crashing or freezing up... it did data cd's
beautifully, and as it turns out, it was crashing because my RAMFast
roms were not a high enough revision... sigh.

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