Re: Toshiba CD-ROMs and IIgs compatibility

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

 gregw@venus.itns.co.za (Greg Wildman) wrote:

>On Thu, 03 May 2001 04:59:25 GMT, Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>
>>     Asking this question is probably a long shot, but has anyone out
>> there ever made use of a Toshiba 1x (XM-3301E) or 4x (XM-5401B)
>> SCSI CD-ROM drive on their Apple IIgs?
>>
>>     Back in October I acquired both model CD-ROM drives, yet neither
>> one worked successfully with my RamFAST. [snip]
>
>I have a XM3301E. Will GSOS recognise this? It doesn't seem to recognise any
>other SCSI CDROM I've connected up.

    Well I decided to do some more testing with my Toshiba 4x drive
mentioned above, this time with an Apple High-Speed SCSI card.
The same type of behavior occurred--discs appeared on the Finder
desktop as hardisk icons and treated as non-removeable devices.
I had to reboot to mount a new disc each time (disc inserts were
totally ignored, just as they were with the RamFAST).

    I didn't test the XM3301E with the High-Speed SCSI, but I assume
it'll exhibit identical behavior. I'm guessing both these CD drives
are set up for a Sun machine (either jumpering or the ROM firmware).
It's too bad since they seem to read most CD-R's I have here.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca