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- From: pporkka@walli.uwasa.fi (Pauli Porkka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: CD rom question
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 19:36:46 GMT
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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- >Hi folks;
-
- >Last time I looked into the price of installing a CD rom drive on my A4000
- >I was told it was going to cost a zillion dollars by the time I went from
- >IDE to SCSII etc. etc.
-
- >I've since seen ads in PC publications for IDE CD roms. Does this mean that
- >I don't need a SCSII interface to install a CD Rom drive ? What would I
- >need ?
-
- You will need ATAPI compatible IDE CD ROM Drive. Most (propably all)
- newer CDROM Drives 2x, 4x and 6x speeds are ATAPI compatible, but you
- should ofcourse verify this from the vendor/reseller before
- purchasing. If I remember right they should be ATAPI V1.2 compatible
- but I don't know what are the differences.
-
- Next you will need atapi driver. I am personally using software
- package called IDEFix for which you can find a demo version from aminet.
- aminet/disk/cdrom/atapi.lha. This will give a CD FileSystem reading
- ISO 9660 and Mac HFS disks (with caching, very fast). It also gives you
- CD32 Emulation to play most of the cd32 games with your A4000.
-
- Get the demo package from Aminet and try it out.
-
- There are also others (I think) but I haven't yet got my hands on
- any of them nor haven't found any other so.....
-
- >I'm running an A4000 (030) with 10 megs ram and a tiny 80 meg hd.
-
- I am running A4000/030/10/1Gb and it works fine.
-
- >Any advice would bre appreciated.
- >--
- >summit@mindlink.bc.ca
-
-
- More of the subject you can find from http://www.tit.fi/~icpopa/acdrom.html
- which contains about 1.2Megs of Amiga CDROM related Info.
-
-
- Proud owner of THE FIRST SOLD Delfina DSP Audio card
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- Pauli Porkka/Digital Audio Systems Designs
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