Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins!gjh From: gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: CD-ROM Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 15:08:17 GMT Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: ghiggins.hpl.hp.com What's the current state of play regarding CD-ROM for the ST? The reason I ask is that there's a Sony portable CD player available here in the UK for an affordable 250-odd sterling. It has a built-in SCSI i/f, so in theory, should be connectable to an ICD DMA-SCSI adaptor. Given that it's a Sony, ICD reckon that their driver s/w should be able to recognise it. Is that all that's required, or am I missing a trick somewhere? Shouldn't there be some kind of hassle like incompatible disk formats (High Sierra vs Low Swamp or somesuch)? It's not that I'm cynical, you understand, just skeptical. Cheers, Gray ==== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins | Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060 Hewlett-Packard Labs | gjh%ghiggins@hpl.hp.co.uk Bristol | gjh%ghiggins@hplb.hpl.hp.com U.K. | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------