From: Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: HP-9600se CD-RW SCSI drive Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:43:00 +0000
Apologies for the cross post it's just I'm enquiring about a large range of Macs in 1 fell-swoop as it where.
I have found a company selling HP 9600se CD-RW external drives quite cheap. They are 8x12x32 drives and use a SCSI-2 compact 50-way interface. HP only support their use on a PC running Windows. Does anyone have any idea if they work on a either a SCSI PowerMac or a 68k Mac?
I don't want to buy it if it's not Mac compatible, as I really only want it as a fast external drive and easy backup device for my older
If they're SCSI, then connectivity should not be a problem. The big question is whether Toast or other CDRW software supports the drive. I would check on the web to see if it's on the list of supported drives for Toast, or whatever your favorite CDRW software is. I think Adaptec has Toast these days, so you'd probably check the Adaptec site.
There are actually two components to CDRW support. Does the burner/writer software support the drive, and does whatever you use for a CDROM driver support the drive. The latter is only necessary if you want to use the drive to *read* CDs in addition to burning them. And, in fact, Toast comes with an extension which takes care of the reading, but I like to skip that extension and just use Intech's CD Tools to read all of my CDROM/DVDROM drives.
Jeff Walther
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