[Coco] Emulator problems

[PaulH96636 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/4/2004 3:18:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kevdig at hypersurf.com writes:
Hi,

    Nope! My Yahmaha SCSI cd writer is a 16x read/6x write/4x rewrite.

                    kevin

PaulH96636 at aol.com wrote:
>>I have an old SCSI 6x read 2x write burner that'll do CDR, but I'd be very
>>surprised if you could read or write RW's.
>>
>>Bob
> 
> 
> ISTR, to read CD-RW you need a 30x drive or better.
> It has not so much to do with speed, as some 24x but
> not others, will also read CD-RWs; it has to do with
> the time-line, ie, RW technology became available
> at about the same time as 24/30x drives (cf multi-
> read vs multisession).  Multisession drives should
> read CD-R if they're 4x or better.
> 
> -ph

Ok, well, perhaps what I recall applies to IDE drives;  I don't know if the
same thing applies to scsi drives, which may be somewhat 'ahead' of IDE in development....(?)   -ph