Re: CD ROM with IIGS???

[rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU (Rolf Braun)]

John L. Graham (John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu) wrote:
: Hi Leif!
:        GS+ Magazine gave DiscQuest a big thumbs up! Since you have a RAM Fast
: SCSI card you shouldn't have any trouble as long as you have the latest ROMs
: (the upgrade is something like $9). The titles known to work with DiscQuest
: plus the Apple II CD ROMs seem to make it worth it. I'm going to pick one up
: as soon as I can. I've got Apple's High Speed SCSI card so my options are a
: little more limited (I think I have to stick with the CD150) but I think it's
: worth a shot.

: Good luck!

: John

I've never tried to hook up a CD-ROM drive to a IIgs, but as far as I know, the
AppleCD 300 should work fine with an Apple II High-Speed SCSI card. However,
THERE IS A KNOWN BUG in System 6.0 and earlier concerning the AppleCD 300. If
you upgrade to System 6.0.1, it should work fine. (The bug is that if there
is no CD-ROM in the drive on startup, the driver will fail to recognize the
CD-ROM drive.)

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