At 16:29 -0600 on 29/01/03, Jeff Walther wrote:

>However, there is a company that builds an IDE to SCSI bridge.  This
>is a card/plate which plugs into an IDE drive and provides a SCSI
>connection.  It is marketed for hard drives, but you may wish to

It works with any SCSI device (well, almost any - there are probably some tape
drives that it doesn't like) but requires *at least* a 5.25" drive bay to work,
which makes it suitable primarily for CD-ROMs and hard disks in Macs with room
to spare, or very large external cases.

>investigate it and see if it would work with CDROM drives.  However,
>by the time you purchased one, it would be cheaper to just get a SCSI
>CDROM drive.

By about US$75, yes.
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