external mac scsi cdrom

In order to boot from a scsi cdrom the drive has to have a Apple Rom inside it, which pretty much means Apple brand. OTOH you don't "have to" boot from the cdrom to use it "like" you booted from it. The secret is to put the driver software for the cdrom on a "disk tools" floppy and boot from the floppy, then use the cdrom "as if" you booted from it (of course you have to leave the floppy in and its slow when accessed). Using this technique any CDROM drive you can find a driver for will work, and the performa part isn't an issue AFAIK. Once the driver software is installed in the system folder on the boot hard drive usage of non-Apple CDROM drives isn't much of an issue either (normal non apple software fussy stuff like updates and conflicts especially with FWB stuff). Also putting any scsi cdrom drive into an external box isn't a big task either. All that said, yes I do have some external CDROM drives that would work, email me directly to find out more.