Re: What CDROM drives work with Apple HS SCSI with sound

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

In article <1994Sep23.160945.17687@ifi.unizh.ch>,
gudat henrik <gudat@avalon.unizh.ch> wrote:
>Stephen Davidson (davoesq@werple.apana.org.au) wrote:
>: What CDROM drives (single or double or otherwise speed) drives work
>: with an Apple HS SCSI card, and which will play audio CD's (either
>: through the IIGS speaker or from an earplug jack on the back of the
>: CDROM player)?
>
>Right now the Apple CD300(+) is the only drive that hasn't any drawbacks
>- besides its price. :)
>Most other drives either have lousy drivers, do not work at all, are
>designed to be portable audio drives and spin down after 30 seconds
>(ARGH! Hands away from Reno drives) or are too slow.
>Note that I haven't tried any CD-ROM drives on a GS. However, I tried
>very hard to find the best CD ROM drive for a Mac, and I'd bet the
>platform doesn't matter in this case.

The platform doesn't matter except when it comes to software.  Someone
needs to write a media control driver for the AppleCD 300 to let it
(and other SCSI-2 drives) play audio discs.  It doesn't have controls
on the front like the NEC 3Xe.

-- 
Steve Reeves
stever@gate.net