Would anyone know if I can:

1) hook up a retail PC-based Sony 10x4x32 CD-R
to my Mac PCI-based TurboMax ATA/66 card that
already has one 20GB Maxtor drive connected ?
2) will I be able to get decent speed out of it ?
3) If it does, will the Toast 4.1 update work with it ?
4) If that works, will the audio output cable be
connectable to my Mac G3 or old 8600 motherboard ?
5) what if I wanted to connect another 20 or 30 GB drive
to the card; which devices should be in the master &
slave slots with a minimal performance hit ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated !!

[exa]

Yep, that will work, as long as your burning software supports that drive, Toast should support it.

Speeds will be normal, after all, the cd-rom can only steal <2mb/sec from one bus.

The turbo max has 2 busses I believe, so support for 4 total drives, 66mb/s on each bus.

If you have a spare audio connector, you should be able to connect it to the cdr and have it work.

For optimum performance, I would keep the bigger/faster hard drives as the master of seperate buses. Put the weaker hard drive and cdr as slaves.

[This message has been edited by exa (edited 05-16-2000).]