On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 02:17 PM, the pickle wrote:
>> There is a way. ACARD do a SCSIDE Bridge Adapter that adapts ATAPI
>> CD/CD-RW drives to SCSI. It's not all that expensive and, provided you
>> flash it to the Mac firmware, it is totally transparent to the system.
>> It comes with everything necessary to attach it to a Mac and will
>> comfortably fti on the back of a CD drive. It's a little long for most
>
> Yeah, but that also assumes the CD can be driven through the adapter.
> Most
> cheap IDE CD mechanisms can't, and for what you'd pay for an adapter +
> mechanism, you could buy a SCSI burner.
>
> The same logic does *not* apply to hard disks, where SCSI is
> considerably
> more expensive and overkill for most applications.
I admit they are only supposed to work on Ricoh CD burners and they are
mighty expensive for what they are. I was just saying it is possible.
Cost was not a consideration unfortunately. Hell, you could always fit
an IDE hard disk ;).
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