I would like to purchase a CD drive for use with xmcd/cda and for data CD purposes. Which do you recommend?
I will not give specific brand and model recommendations, but I will recommend a SCSI-2 drive over a non-SCSI one. More features are supported by xmcd on SCSI drives than on non-SCSI units. Furthermore, SCSI CD drives are universally supported on the various OS and hardware platforms (whereas non-SCSI units only work on some platforms). This makes a SCSI drive more portable between different systems, and there is less worry about getting obscure device drivers to work. Note that not all SCSI-2 drives are created equal, some of them implement more of the audio-related commands than others. If you do a careful study of xmcd’s libdi_d/cfgtbl/* files, you’ll get a good glimpse at the CD drives’ capabilities. Some of xmcd’s features will not work unless these commands are fully implemented on the drive. Also, see the DRIVES file for specific drive-related notes. Note that some workstations require special OEM versions of the CD drives (such as Sun, which requires support of 512-byte block s
