Re: CD-ROM Drives Again...

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <bazyarCJ2yL5.GFq@netcom.com>, Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@netcom.com> wrote:
>  The POWER CD should work. Any SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive will work and
>will do audio if you have a RamFAST. If you don't have a RF, then
>get an Apple CD-SC+ or CD-150.

Whoa!  My understanding (from CVT's Drew Vaughn himself) was that the RamFAST
does *not* support audio on *any* CD-ROM drive because of its "fuzzy" (i.e.
generic) interface and the fact that audio commands vary so much from one
drive to the next since they are not part of the SCSI standard.  The RamFAST
is also a SCSI - not SCSI-2 - controller, so any SCSI-2 device would have to
fall back to SCSI to work with the RamFAST.  In order to play audio tracks on
a IIgs, you need to use an Apple SCSI interface card, which use the GS/OS
drivers, which require the Sony mechanism of the CD SC, CD SC Plus, and CD 150.

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