Re: IIgs, CD-audio, Apple HS SCSI, and which Apple brand CD-ROM drives?

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

Crap.  I guess I'll just get a CD150.  I do want to have CD audio
capability.  It might be the only CD's I ever get for my IIgs.
    What is the fastest CD-ROM for the RAMFast?  Maybe I should just get one
of those and throw my HS SCSI card back in my IIe.  Decisions, decisions.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html

ISCA AppleII Librarian wrote in message
<7nnf4d$ceb$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>...
>From article <rpte9n$0$37nspbi$7gc@news.supernews.com>, by "Jason Whorton"
<jason@microxl.com>:
>> Hello.  I have an Apple IIgs ROM 3 and an Apple High-Speed SCSI Card.  I
am
>> planning on adding an Apple brand CD-ROM to my system in the future.  I
read
>> some old information that the CD-300e and CD-300 Plus did not have a
driver
>> for playing audio CD's.  Does anyone know if these drives ever had a
System
>> 6.0.1 driver made for them to play audio CD's?  How about the 600e?
>>
>
>System6.0.1 for the GS contains scsi drivers that support audio functions
>on the early Apple SCSI CD drives up through CD150.  These drives are now
>called SCSI-1 drives.  Later drives starting with the CD300 are SCSI-2
>drives and Apple never released updated drivers for GSOS and scsi-2
>devices.
>
>However, Jawaid Bazyar, while working for Sequential System, announced the
>release of SCSI2 drivers for the Apple High Speed SCSI card.  To the best
>of my knowledge Seq. Sys. never sold the new drivers.  I tried for months
>to order it and never could get the order desk lady to take an order
>because they only sold hardware, not software.  I talked to Jay Yafronski
>(sp?) who said he would look around for the drivers, but he never
>responded to futher inquiries.  I suspect if the drivers were written they
>left Seq. Sys. when Bazyar left Seq. Sys.  I have never heard of anyone
>ever getting the drivers.
>
>SCSI2 devices work OK as data drives with GS/OS, just the CD Media Remote
>cdev won't operate a CD300 or newer with Apple SCSI card.
>
>SCSI2 drivers for the RamFast controller are available however.  Check
>with Seq. Sys. when you try to buy a RamFast controller, or grab the
>RFscsi drivers from a FTP site.
>
>Good luck!  And yell out loudly to csa2 if you ever find the "Apple High
>Speed SCSI2 Driver". :-)
>
>  -Steve
>
>--
>
> --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)
>
>