Re: CD ROM with IIGS???

[stever@news.gate.net (Steve Reeves)]

In article <CvLzFM.3rq@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>,
Rolf Braun <rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>John L. Graham (John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu) wrote:
>: as soon as I can. I've got Apple's High Speed SCSI card so my options are a
>: little more limited (I think I have to stick with the CD150) but I think it's
>: worth a shot.
>
>I've never tried to hook up a CD-ROM drive to a IIgs, but as far as I know, the
>AppleCD 300 should work fine with an Apple II High-Speed SCSI card. However,
>THERE IS A KNOWN BUG in System 6.0 and earlier concerning the AppleCD 300. If
>you upgrade to System 6.0.1, it should work fine. (The bug is that if there
>is no CD-ROM in the drive on startup, the driver will fail to recognize the
>CD-ROM drive.)

As I understand it, you can read data fine with an AppleCD 300 and an
Apple High Speed SCSI card, but you can't play audio under the computer's
control.  However, this is just a software problem.  If someone wrote
a SCSI 2 driver for the card, it would work.  (Someone please write this!)

You can also use NEC CD-ROM drives with the Apple card if you get
Tulin's NEC driver.

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Steve Reeves
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