DVD in a Quadra?
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Running OS 8.1, with the Apple CD/DVD Driver, a DVD-ROM drive certainly can be used for data storage. Obviously, on a machine so old, you can forget about watching DVD-Video discs, hell even early G3s have trouble decoding DVDs.
As for DVD-RAM, I'm fairly sure there's a solution to allow 68ks to run DVD-RAM drives, can't remember the name though. Either way, good luck finding a SCSI DVD-ROM or DVD-RAM drive.
As for DVD-RAM, I'm fairly sure there's a solution to allow 68ks to run DVD-RAM drives, can't remember the name though. Either way, good luck finding a SCSI DVD-ROM or DVD-RAM drive.
Quadraman's already conquered (conquested?) a SCSI DVD-RAM. He's asking how to use it with a Quadra.
Now I may be entirely wrong about this, but my impression was that if you format it as HFS (or HFS+ for MacOS 8.1) on a newer Mac, it will show up on a 68k as a hard drive, if it is in the drive, and the drive is on when the Mac boots. I would love to hear your results if you try this.
Now I may be entirely wrong about this, but my impression was that if you format it as HFS (or HFS+ for MacOS 8.1) on a newer Mac, it will show up on a 68k as a hard drive, if it is in the drive, and the drive is on when the Mac boots. I would love to hear your results if you try this.
Add a Wired4DVD card and even a PPC601 or PPC604 can play DVDs well. It's a PCI card though, so no help for NuBus PowerMacs and certainly not for Quadras.
A DVD-RAM drive will probably work fine with an IDE to SCSI adapter like the Acard 7220U. (or is it 7720U, I always get that confused, even back when I was selling them).
Wired was selling the Wired4DVD card for $19 with free shipping as recently as 2007 but they don't appear to have it on their website any longer. Might be worth an email if one is interested.
I just saw this thread. I have an external DVD-RAM hooked up to my SuperMac S900...I know I thought about hooking it up to my Quadra 700, and I can't rememebr if I did (or didn't), and if it worked (or didn't).
I'm on the road, and I also can't remember the name of the software that I had to DL from a certain Hotline server, back in the day. Something about needing a specific older version to run on System 7.6 or System 8, or something.
I'm writing this to help serve as a memory placeholder to come back to in a couple of days. Face it, after age 40, your memory starts getting pretty dicey...
I'm on the road, and I also can't remember the name of the software that I had to DL from a certain Hotline server, back in the day. Something about needing a specific older version to run on System 7.6 or System 8, or something.
I'm writing this to help serve as a memory placeholder to come back to in a couple of days. Face it, after age 40, your memory starts getting pretty dicey...
You can certainly use DVD-RAM with old 68k Macs... I was doing it for years as a backup medium for my SE/30.
You need "DVD-RAM Tune-Up" which is abandonware (and very hard to find). Later versions of CDROM Toolkit support DVD-RAM also, but it didn't work for me years ago when I first tried it.
You need "DVD-RAM Tune-Up" which is abandonware (and very hard to find). Later versions of CDROM Toolkit support DVD-RAM also, but it didn't work for me years ago when I first tried it.
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