Jason Whorton wrote:
There are SCSI DVD-ROM drives. I have a Pioneer 10-X SCSI DVD in my PC. Wouldn't the OS have to have a driver to read a DVD-ROM disk or to make use of a DVD-ROM drive's DVD reading capability? The only Apple II hard drive I have right now is loaded with ProDos and I don't have a full set of disks to install GS/OS 6.0.1. If I did, I would try to install the DVD-ROM drive and see if it would still read a CD-ROM. It would be neat to try.
My thought was that a SCSI card might just read the disks. I've had some pretty good luck reading oddball SCSI devices.
As far as reading a data DVD, I think even a 1X DVD speed is more than
1MB per second data transfer, isn't it? I think my SCSI card has a speed
limit of 1 MB/second.
I don't think that's too important. I have a 40x Toshiba CD drive hooked up to my IIgs. Pretty massive overkill.
Wayne