I use an old version of Apple's CD extension from System 7 I think. I have to use it in my clone and has worked perfectly for several non-Apple CD-ROM's under OS 8 & 9. My clone came with FWB's CD extension which was always screwing things up and replaced it with the Apple extension and all is well.......
I do have a 40x SCSI CD-ROM pulled from a Pentium II server. However, it's a Toshiba, which won't use stock Apple drivers.
Yes, you can replace it with a CDRW, but the fast modern CDRW's are all IDE. I don't think I've ever seen >24X with SCSI.
Apple decided to limit the CD-ROM drive compatibility somewhere around OS 8 but before OS 8 there were many brands that worked fine. I would put the Toshiba CD-ROM in with the old Apple extension and it should work fine.
Ron
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