I just put a cd burner in my Starmax- my son wanted one for Christmas- it
works great, though still learning things. The Starmax will support two ide
devices, and the CD drive that shipped with most of them was a scsi. If you
already have a scsci cd drive however, or 2 hard drives (ide), one of them
has to go to make room on the bus.
I got a Yamaho because other SM users said they were very compatible. It's a
16-10-40 (so 16x write speed, generally the most important #). I think I pd
about $40 incl shipping from an ebay seller. I had to buy an IDE cable from
Comp USA; I put the cable in the port marked "ATAPI CD-ROM" on the
motherboard. (my cd drive is SCSI). It does look kind of funny to have 2 cd
drives one atop the other, but works well.
I'm running OS 9.1 and Toast 4.1.2, 160 mb ram. My son found it useful
to do a free download of "MPegger" (http://www.proteron.com/mpegger) for
converting CD's to MPEGs- he then burns them onto CD-RWs to play on his new
portable CD player which plays mpeg's. You can convert them w/ Itunes but he
prefers the MPegger for this.
None of the drives in my Starmax are original, the HD was replaced with
a larger one and the regular cd drive was replaced w/ a larger ( & faster)
TEAC one when it died, as was the floppy drive. The Cd driver is "cd-rom
toolkit" by FWB - I have the Apple cd extension off, but loaded in Toast
cdreader which allows the burner to act as a cd reader also.
I used to have a jaz drive in it too, but moved that to my Mac G3 desktop
machine.
> Subject: CD burning using and IDE burner
> From: David Deckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm new here, just checking in. I imagine this has been covered plenty
> of times.
>
> How successful should a new or recent IDE burner be with say, a Starmax
> 3000 assuming Toast 5.x, decent RAM, and 8.6 or higher?
>
> And am I right in thinking the bus can only support one IDE device, or
> could I keep an IDE HD?
>
> Not planning on using (read: purchasing) a PCI controller, but I'd be
> interested to hear how necessary one might be to get the maximum speed
> out of today's burners.
>
> Also, if I ventured this way I'd like to keep a CDROM in there for
> ripping or straight copying. So I'd need to know what issues there
> might be with third-party drivers for the CDROM/Toast etc. I realize
> most new burners should be able to rip as fast as a CDROM-only, so I'm
> not totally averse to that but was just thinking of "saving" the burner
> for burning, in much the same way that using a camcorder for playing
> back tapes seems a bit wasteful.
>
> What got me thinking of all this was the less-than-$50 new burners we
> sometimes see, and the low point of entry price for a PCI clone w/IDE.
>
> -David
>
>
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