Re: SD2UIEC Multimedia

I hate to say this but for the effort using an SD card makes a heck of a
lot more sense...however if you were to pursue this, might as well make a
SATA device connector of some sort so you could read any type of SATA
drive, including SATA CD/DVD data drives.

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Pete Rittwage <peter@rittwage.com> wrote:

> Nobody uses or cares about CD/DVD anymore. Just copy the files to SD
> card... Done.
>
> -Pete
>
>
> > What would be nice if someone could figure out Multimedia support
> > (I believe is the correct name) to interface CD-ROM drives to be able to
> > copy files from "DATA CD's" and software to play music CD's.
> >
> > This would only function with Jim Brain's earlier CF2IEC unit that has an
> > IDE Data connector for IDE HD's, of course  PC CD-Rom units use the same
> > interface.
> >
> > This would need code for the firmware.
> >
> > If there were more interest in using the CF2IEC hardware hopefully Jim
> > could build more of these.
> >
> > Seems there's plenty of CD-ROM and DVD drives that are available why not
> > use the technology on a Commodore still, the IDE64 folks support CD-ROM
> > hardware!
> >
> > Terry Raymond
> >
>
>
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