Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple CD-ROM,GS,Mac Message-ID: <9008090419.AA25604@apple.com> Date: 9 Aug 90 04:12:36 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 >Furthermore, can the PCT access the Apple-CD ROM via the GS SCSI port? >That is does the AE PCT(a PC on a board) support SCSI devices? The PCT will access a 'special' MS-DOS 'fake' partition on ANY ProDOS HD, no matter what kind of controller you're using (SCSI or non-SCSI). It will also access Apple CD-ROM files, but ONLY in the PCT Transfer utility. In other words, you have to run a PCT 'FID' program that reaches into ProDOS and copies a file to an MS-DOS disk or copies a file from MS-DOS to ProDOS, but it's not a command-line shell. In other words, you can't be at the MS-DOS prompt and load, save, and run files on an Apple CD-ROM disk. Now can you use an MS-DOS cd-rom with the PCT. As for supporting SCSI devices... well yes for HD's and MAYBE for printers, but definately not for scanners or anything like that.