Sandy.Elrick@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sandy Elrick) (03/10/90)
I have a question to put to anyone. Is there a product out for the
Amiga that allows, at least readable, CD drives? Are there any
read/writes for the Amiga? Also, what is the best solution for one to
get a nice Hard Drive for an Amiga 500?
Sandy Elrick
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Standard Disclaimers Apply...ln63wkp@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Viet Ho) (03/11/90)
In article <581.25F944C8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Sandy.Elrick@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sandy Elrick) writes: > > I have a question to put to anyone. Is there a product out for the >Amiga that allows, at least readable, CD drives? Are there any >read/writes for the Amiga? Also, what is the best solution for one to On a related note, how about the best of Amiga music (from games/ like Cinemaware) on CD? Call it the Amiga soundtrack! Please no soundeffects from shoot-em up games! -Viet vho@ucsd.edu
schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) (03/14/90)
In article <581.25F944C8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Sandy.Elrick@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sandy Elrick) writes: > > I have a question to put to anyone. Is there a product out for the >Amiga that allows, at least readable, CD drives? Are there any >read/writes for the Amiga? Also, what is the best solution for one to >get a nice Hard Drive for an Amiga 500? > Sandy Elrick > Yes. They are called Optical Erasable Drives. There are three that I know of available, from 540MB to 1 Gibabyte PER CARTRIDGE. In other words, you can buy the drive for around $4500 and as many cartridges after that for a few hundred dollars each. The cartridges are as exchangable as floppy disks. The drives are not made specifically for the amiga. I believe the ones available are Mac drives. However there are 3 SCSI companies that are supporting these drives for the Amiga. The only people I know who are selling these drives is Briwall. You can find an ad for them in just about any Amiga magazine. I can't remember off hand where they are located or their phone number. But they do have a technical assistance line which will answer any questions you would have about these drives. The only drawback I have heard of, and this is hearsay, is that they are considerably slower than a hard drive. \ / \ \ / / Sean Schur \ \ / / \ \/ / USENET: schur@isi.edu \ /a\mpyr/ Compuserve: 70731,1102 \/ \ / ideo Plink: OSS259 \/
hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue) (03/15/90)
In article <12380@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes: >Yes. They are called Optical Erasable Drives. There are three that I know >of available, from 540MB to 1 Gibabyte PER CARTRIDGE. In other words, you To avoid confusion, you should refer to these as magneto-optical drives. They are not optical drives, and do not use the same technology as the audio CD or CD-ROM. >will answer any questions you would have about these drives. The only >drawback I have heard of, and this is hearsay, is that they are considerably >slower than a hard drive. It takes three passes to write data on a magneto-optical drive. Their access time is usually quite a bit longer than that of a good hard drive, too. -Jonathan