Re: Apple 600e SCSI CD Rom Drive on a GS

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org.is.invalid (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <btlbbh$8fdcp$1@ID-198131.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Terry Olsen <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Can the Apple 600e CD-Rom drive be used with a RamFAST?  The RamFast tells
>me I need to format the drive before I can use it...but its a CD-Rom
>drive...what gives?  The RamFast  correctly identifies the drive as a
>CD-Rom...

I've not had much luck getting any CD-ROM drive to work with my RamFAST
(rev. C, newest firmware), but I have a Panasonic 4x drive that works fine
with an Apple DMA SCSI card.  You can even boot off of it if the first
partition on the CD is a bootable ProDOS partition.  (There are no
CD-burning programs that will create a CD with ProDOS filesystems on them,
but I wrote a program a while back that generates a partition table and
concatenates some ProDOS and/or HFS filesystems to create a CD image that
you can burn with Nero, cdrecord, or whatever.  I have the System 6.0.1
install floppies on a CD-R now...you can boot off of it to nuke & install on
a hard drive without swapping floppies.) 

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