Re: WHAT's NEW w/ MAC (Hardware)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Wayne Stewart wrote:

>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.

You're right, it isn't.  Modern drives have internal buffers, so transfer speed
is not an issue--except for speed, of course.  ;-)

-michael

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