[HM] ATAPI on a 7600?

[Duane Murphy]

--- At Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:38:40 -0700, Jack Honeycutt wrote:

>Hello...
>
>I am looking for some internal DVD burner advice.
>
>Now that I am moving my 'ol 7600 into the future with a G4 card and Jaguar, 
>I am thinking of swapping out the internal CD ROM drive for a internal DVD 
>burner.
>
>I have yet to add a Firewire/USB card to my 7600, but I see that they are 
>available (I saw one on Sonnet's web site that was a combo USB/Firewire 
>card that would only use up one PCI slot; nice!)

Dont bother you probably wont need it. FireWire might be nice for
external storage.

>What I would like to do, is buy a *internal* DVD burner and swap it out 
>with the internal CD ROM drive in the 7600.
>
>Most of the DVD drives I see for sale are external.  And I know I could buy 
>a USB/firewire card and use a external drive.  But I would like to swap up 
>out my internal CD ROM drive for a *internal DVD burner if I can.
>
>Some internal DVD burners say "ATAPI" instead of Firewire or USB on 
>them.  Is this the type of internal DVD burner I am looking for?

The 7600 uses SCSI internally. All new machines using ATA/IDE internally
(and now the G5 usese Serial-ATA). If you look on Sonnet's site you will
also find the Tempo card. This is an ATA card capable of handling four
drives; including CD/DVD drives.

>If not, which type of interface am I looking for?
>
>If all else fails, I will buy a Firewire/USB card and go external, but I 
>could sure use the desk space and really want an internal DVD burner if at 
>all possible.
>
>If I am forced to ad a USB/Firewire card to my 7600, do they sometimes have 
>a internal firewire/USB connector on the card, so I could install a 
>internal firewire and/or USB DVD burner?  Perhaps this is the way to go 
>rather than use the connector currently used for the internal CD ROM drive 
>in my 7600?

The internal connection on a 7600 is SCSI. You will find it difficuly and
expensive to locate SCSI devices.

 ...Duane