simple: amiga cd-drives different from pc ones

[SamuraiCrow]

3246251196 wrote:
so guys can you clear this up here:

1 - if i use a PC cd drive (rw/rom) i CAN use it?

yes.

2 - if so, i WILL need a 2.5 - 3.5 IDE cable YES?

Yes but be sure you get a good one.  Using an unbuffered adapter cable will likely fry your motherboard.

3 - can i also do the same with DVD-RWs?

Yes but be aware that there are no DVD filesystems for classic Amiga.  You will be able to burn CDRs with the proper software though.

4 - like on PC will the optical drive be auto-detectable?

No.  You'll have to drag an icon into a drawer and reboot.  Depending on the IDE splitter cable you might have to install drivers for it as well.

[SamuraiCrow]

adolescent wrote:

SamuraiCrow wrote:

Yes but be sure you get a good one.  Using an unbuffered adapter cable will likely fry your motherboard.

Not always true.  See Harry's response above.  Why would a 2.5->3.5 cable be any more dangerous than the standard "unbuffered" 2.5->2.5 cable?

If he tries to hook up a hard drive AND CDROM it will likely overload the signal pins and fry the motherboard.

Yes but be aware that there are no DVD filesystems for classic Amiga.  You will be able to burn CDRs with the proper software though.

:-?  You can read and write DVD-R on classic Amiga.  For example, CacheCDFS from OS3.9 happily reads DVD-R without any problem.

Yes, but AmigaOS for less than version 4.0 prerelease 4 will not read files larger than 2 GB and a DVD video player would require a PowerPC chip and the aforementioned prerelease of AmigaOS 4.0.

[SamuraiCrow]

That will work as long as you don't also have a hard drive hooked up.  If you want both a hard drive and CD-ROM you'll need some sort of buffered splitter cable like you could get at AmigaKit.