> yes, you will need a third party driver (ideally from toast) or the hacked
version of the
> apple driver, which i have, if you'd like email me off list and i can send
it out tonight,

please, if you can, I'd be happy to get it! :)

> i'm using said driver right now, i nearly never use "apple" cd rom drives.
you won't be
> able to burn without something like toast i don't think.  are you trying
to use the disk
> burner in os 9?  i'm not sure there's a patch for the driver that will
make third party

no, i have Os 8.5... didn't see any burner here... and I'm not planning to
upgrade, as it'll be too slow with my 56MB Ram...

> burners burn disk or not, if there is it will be something other than the
standard "mac
> cdrom" driver that's needed for burning i believe (my os 9 machine has
been down a while
> so i can't easily check).  in any case, i'd recommend even an old copy of
toast for

well, now I've installed a Cd-rom reader only, so it's ok even with no
burning... i can transfer to my PC via LAN and burn there... anyway: will i
be able to read ISO9660 with the hacked driver? or is there any Pc software
u know of that can write HFS (or what the Mac CD format is, i'm not sure
about that)?

> burning as it's far, far superior to apple's disk burner, and the toast
extension should
> work with your' drive (check their site to see if that burner is listed,
not all burners
> are supported, in which case you'll probably only be able to use it for
reading disk).
> check <resexcellence.com> for hacks if you want to try them yourself, they
are fairly simple.

i will, thanks for the great help. I'm happy to know that someone out there
has already done what i wanna do :)
ANdrei


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