TITLE
    Apple CD-ROM Driver: Support For ATAPI CD-ROM Drives
Article ID:
Created:
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24400
2/27/98
6/12/98

TOPIC

    This article describes the support provided by Apple's CD-ROM driver for ATAPI drives.


DISCUSSION

    Support for ATAPI CD-ROM drives (such as in the PowerBook 1400) was first introduced in version 5.2 of the Apple CD-ROM driver.

    The current version of the Apple CD-ROM driver supports both Apple and industry standard ATAPI CD-ROM drives. Qualified ATAPI version 2.6 compliant drives should have full multimedia support. UDF support has been included in all drivers.

    There are CD-ROM drives that do not support all of the ATAPI specification, and therefore cannot be accessed by the Apple CD-ROM driver.

    Apple has not tested or qualified any third party drives. Nonetheless, if the drive manufacturer conforms fully to the ATAPI 2.6 standard, it should work.

Document Information
Product Area: Mac OS System Software
Category: General OS
Sub Category: General Topics

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