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

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

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.
    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.

Thanks,
Jason Whorton


"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.spamless.net> wrote in message
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> Joe wrote:
>
> > But, but, but...my post was just as realistic as the fellow who asked
> > on an Apple II newsgroup about what Apple hardware is going to be
released
> > at a Mac show.
> >
> > Hmmm. ProDOS based DVDs? You might want to try to pitch that to Steve
> > Jobs. LOL
> >
> > In the future, I think I better leave the "this is not a Mac
> > newsgroup" posting to those who do it without sarcasm. Sorry ;-)
>
> Hm, makes me curious, it should be possible to do a DVD that's
> partitioned into a number of ProDOS partitions. If you can do ProDOS
> CDs then why not data DVDs. Might have to include a couple of HFS
> partitions though. Of course then you need a DVD reader that'll work on
> an Apple II. Are there any SCSI DVD readers out there? Or ide any card
> that works with an ide CD-ROM should likely work with a DVD player for
> edata DVDs. Anyone using an ide CD-ROM?
>
> Wayne
>