Re: SCSI devices for a IIgs

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> DVD-ROMs can be burned in ISO-9660 format as well as UDF.  While a UDF
> DVD-ROM definitely won't work, maybe an ISO-9660 or hybrid ISO/UDF DVD-ROM
> would work.  (An even stranger beast would be a DVD-ROM with HFS or even
> ProDOS filesystems on it...you can do this with CD-ROM easily enough, and
as
> far as burning software goes, a DVD-R isn't much more than a really large
> CD-R.)

May I add that there is one other big difference. CDs are burned using a
pinpoint IR light beam, where DVD is burned using a finer and much
hotter UV beam. For the record.

> Testing this would require a SCSI DVD-ROM drive, though...all of the
DVD-ROM
> drives I have are IDE.

Come to think of it, I've never seen or heard of a SCSI DVD drive.
I think I will go and search for one. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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