CD-ROM recommendations

[mechy]

Used a yamaha 8424 drive for yeeears on my a4k. Then got an IDE cd writer whenever prices became stupidly cheap a years back. The 8424 is now in the unused 2000. Both worked with a 2091 card.  By the way, the IDE drive was so much faster that I wonder why anybody bothered with SCSI at all.

Well,if you compare a old drive to new drive,obviously speed will be better.
but you picked the worst way to use scsi,the crappy 2091. If you had used scsi off a good accelerator your results would of been night and day.
if your lucky the 2091 was good for 2 or 3MB/s and if you had no ram on the 2091,more like 1.5MB/s downhill with the wind.
you should be shot for crippling a 4000 that way :rofl: no wonder they banned you..heh

[mechy]

I have to agree with tone here, scsi was one of the best standards on amiga. I mean real scsi off the accelerator,and not the half baked zorro2 cards or squirrel scsi(although they do work for the most part). Most people who complain about scsi i find don't spend 5 mins understanding it,its super simple once you understand how termination and such is used.I've used it since 87 on amiga's and find it super reliable.

Mech

[mechy]

I similarly had / have an A1200 with the blizzard 1230 acc and SCSI Kit IV. I bought a SCSI box fitted with my first ever SCSI HD (1Gb Quantum) and first CD ROM Toshiba XM5701. The hard disk and the drive works fine till present date! I never had a single issue with them during my 4-5 years usage, since I discarded the A1200 in the box-room. I have then plugged the scsi box with HD/CDrom to an EMU sampler e6400 and again they did the job till 2002 when I stopped composing music. However, whenever I switch on the unit for nostalgic purposes, they still work fine.
 
On the PC, where I used IDE, I have thrown away some 3 IDE HD and 1 CD-Writer.  From m yexperience, its either they used to built better devices 10yes ago, or it's becasue of SCSI technology.
 
On a different matter, SCSI I devices with the 50 centronics are pretty rare, old (2nd hand might turn faulty) and expensive, so IDe might at the end be the most feasible choice.

well this may be viewed as a shameless plug(ok it IS):rolleyes:,but if you need a way to use a CF as a scsi HD,this works pretty well

http://a4000t.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65_79&products_id=184

Mech