Re: SCSI devices for a IIgs

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Phil Abel <phil_nonospam_abel@nonospam_prodigy_nonospam.net> wrote in
message news:ywVRa.1975$ZE7.1406@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
>
> As far as writing CDRW or reading DVDs, no.  But if you install the
ISO9660
> drivers in GSOS you should be able to read most CDROMs formatted on PCs--
> but you can't do much with anything other than plain text unless you burn
an
> ISO CD of *.shk files.  You can play audio CDs too... but you have to use
> the headphone port on the CD drive for audio, I don't know of any way to
> route the audio through the GS speakers unless there is some stereo card
out
> there with a line-in port?
...
> I recently found out that using appletalk to access the CD-ROM drive of a
> mac performa over a network connection is not a noticable speed difference
> over using a local CDSC with a Rev C SCSI card.  The mac can read the CD
> much faster which makes directory navigation a little better, but the
lower
> bandwidth causes slowdown when you need to copy a lot of files over.  I
use
> a mac for backing up my a2 hard drive, etc. over the network so I just
keep
> a data CD in the mac CDrom and whenever I need to pull something from the
> archive I just map the network drive and it is there.

I'd like to be able to burn a single DVD with the combined contents of
Asimov, ground, and any other interesting archive sites.  Short of that, a
CDROM with most of the interesting bits would be useful.  I like the
Appletalk approach - I could just create an area on a Mac's hard disk for
files, download files from the net to the Mac and use the Mac as a file
server/print server.

I had thought I would get better throughput by connecting the SCSI
peripherals directly to the IIgs, but maybe not.  However, I'll still want a
hard drive to use as a boot volume.

- Mike