Primer on Amiga CD drives

[creid2]

Greetings:
I'm sure there has been lots of discussion on this topic, but searching CDROM drives brings up many threads that aren't relevant to this question, so thought I'd start us over again:

Specifically, has anyone attached an IDE CDROM drive to a vortex golden gate 486SLC for PC emulation? Is it headache-free? If so, are there recommendations for manufacturer and/or read-write speeds that are acceptable? What happens if you attach a screaming modern CD-RW if the golden gate cannot keep up?

Generally, which CD drives work with the Amiga SCSI interface (I realize these address two different things)? I am running a 030 at 50MHz, any recommendations? I like the plexwriter.

Thanks,

Chris

[gertsy]

You haven't said on what Amiga but I guess an A2000?  With an Accelerator?
Don't know about the Goldern Gate IDE but I have a TEAC 6x4x16 SCSI CDRW on my 2000.  Generally all 50 pin SCSI CD Drives work on the older accelerators.

[creid2]

Yes, thanks, it's an A2000 with GVP G-force 030 accelerator.

C

Edit: To be more precise, would a 48/24/48 work with the golden gate IDE? What about a comparable SCSI drive for the amiga side?

[gertsy]

Yes, thanks, it's an A2000 with GVP G-force 030 accelerator.

C

Edit: To be more precise, would a 48/24/48 work with the golden gate IDE? What about a comparable SCSI drive for the amiga side?

I have a G-Force 040 and the SCSI cdrom works fine on that.  
As to IDE I guess it will work.  You wont get PATA 33 or 66 Speeds out of it. It will proabably use PIO mode but that still gives speeds around 5MB a sec.

one way to find out....