On Dec 31, 2003, at 03:00 am, Jeff Walther wrote:
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.
Newer version of Toast do support it (see xlr8yourmac.com). Essentially anything that allows me to burn to it will do as long as it works ok. On older machines even not supporting stuff like buffer under-run protection or higher burn speeds is not really an issue.
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.
Primarily the drive has to Read. The fact it's a 32x reader is a big bonus. I get sick of waiting for stuff to install form a 2x CD drive on older machines. Burning is really only a secondary consideration, but it would be nice to be able to burn CDs, esp from machines with old hard drives etc.
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