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In article <cy5WmFAzBZu1EwtX@alahaz.demon.co.uk>,
Alastair Hazlewood <alahaz@alahaz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Subject: CD-R's
>From: Alastair Hazlewood
>Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:59:47 +0100
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
>
>Hi 
>
>Can anybody help me please. I have a friend who is a mac user and she
>has been given a PC (a lap top) this lap top has no CD ROM so she is
>wanting to get an external CD-R that she can us with the laptop as well
>as with her mac (the mac already has a CD ROM as you would expect). Does
>anybody know of a company that suplies CD-R that are compatable with
>both mac's and PC's 
>
>Thank you
>-- 
>Alastair Hazlewood

The problem is, the Mac needs a SCSI CD-R, the laptop almost certainly has
no SCSI port, so unless you could get a SCSI card for the laptop, then
she's had it. 

If the PC can have a SCSI port added, then any SCSI CD-R will work, as long
as you have software for them both. 

Anyone know if Toast is cross platform?

Alastair Hazlewood <alahaz@alahaz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anybody help me please. I have a friend who is a mac user and she
> has been given a PC (a lap top) this lap top has no CD ROM so she is
> wanting to get an external CD-R that she can us with the laptop as well
> as with her mac (the mac already has a CD ROM as you would expect). Does
> anybody know of a company that suplies CD-R that are compatable with
> both mac's and PC's 

Any CD-R drive fitted with a SCSI port should work with either a Mac or
a PC, provided that the PC is fitted with a SCSI port (or could have one
fitted). You will need to check that you get cables for both machines
(they're probably different), and that there is driver software
available for both platforms. A dealer who sells both PCs and Macs might
be the best place to call - Dabs Direct (<http://www.dabs.com/>) come to
mind, but are no doubt others.

HTH

-- 
Mark Etherington @ London UK
mark@roxley.demon.co.uk