> > The bigger question is whether a removable media drive will work with > > your ata card. Because of the way ata cards fool the system into seeing > > an attached hd disk as SCSI, many will not work with a removable media > > drive (CD, DVD, zip etc). > > This is not a problem. I've an Ultratek 66 on my 7300/G3/300 to connect a > Lite-on CDRW which works without a hitch. > The problem I would foresee is that the computer may not do a good job > rendering the video without some kind of acceleration. But I want to assume > that you have addressed this need. I believe you may need some hardware, a > decoder, in addition to a vid card, like the Radeon 9500 or 7000--I think I > have the M#'s right. > OS9forever.com had some information about playing DVD's on our venerable > Macs. > > HTH > > Jim S >
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