I have a Ricoh 16x CD-RW SCSI and it boot fine with MacOS 8.1, 8.5 and 9.0.
If you do not own cd-rom toolkit, you need to keep a macos cd on the in
drive during the machine bootup. If you do so, you 2400c can see it with
the standard apple cdrom driver.
Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bodenschatz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Duo/2400 List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: October 17, 2000 8:55 AM
Subject: [Duo2400] 2400c and USB/Firewire CardBus
> All,
>
> I own an upgraded Comet (MCE accomplished NuPowr G3/240, 80 MB RAM,
> 10GB, Cardbus upgrade) and am looking for a SCSI CD-RW that uses Apple's
> CD-ROM drivers from OS 9.0 in order for the Comet to "boot" from an OS
> CD. I have an old NEC 4x drive connected now through SCSI but NEC
> stopped updating Mac drivers in 1996 and nothing boots from the CD.
>
> I want SCSI because I haven't had luck getting ANY USB peripherals
> recognized (tried an Epson 1200U scanner, an IJAM MP3 player, and a
> Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player) through my MacAlly CardBus to USB adapter
> and I'm gun-shy about purchasing a USB or even a Firewire CD-RW for
> backing up data files.
>
> Also, has anyone had difficulty getting NuPowr's driver 1.0.3 to work,
> or even getting OS 9.04 to not crash? 9.04 downed my machine completely
> for an entire day until I could re-build 9.0, hard to do from that NEC
> drive that didn't boot the CD.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
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