Get an all-apple CD-ROM drive. Apple drives have "Apple ROM's" in them
which allows them to be bootable, and the standard Apple CD driver that
installs with the MacOS will be enough to make it work 100% with your
system.
on 5/8/01 11:34 AM, Chris Chow at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kate,
>
> Installing the right driver for the CD-ROM drive might
> solve your problem.
>
> Speaking from experience you may have however
> encountered "SCSI voodoo" which may give strange
> symptoms. When you connect the CD-ROM drive to the
> 2400, be sure that you turn on the CD-ROM drive first
> before turning on the 2400. The other thing is to make
> sure that the CD-ROM drive is terminated ie it has a
> terminator (a rectangular plug)on the other SCSI port
> of the drive (if it has an extra one).
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> It took me an interesting month to install system
>> software from CD and
>> Cdrom. Sometimes an icon of the CD would appear on
>> the desktop and
>> sometimes not, sometimes everything would appear
>> more dimensional and
>> full coloured, sometimes if the CD loaded the info
>> didn't seem to be all
>> there.
>>
>> It was very inconsistent but eventually somehow
>> worked--the original
>> 2400c system and the 8.0 and 8.5 were successfully
>> taken in. Even with
>> help and encouragement from someone on the list
>> here, (Thanks again!).
>> I really don't know exactly what I did differently
>> in the end. By some
>> miracle it worked.
>>
>> My EarthLink CD arrived in the mail and I tried to
>> load it. But now the
>> CDrom and the 2400c seem to have nothing to do with
>> one another! Not
>> even a partially apearing CD icon on the desktop.
>> Zilch. The cd-rom
>> shows up in the drives folder--where one initializes
>> disks--there it is
>> listed after the 'macintosh harddrive'. The very
>> helpful Internet Setup
>> Assistant enabled me to configure the connection and
>> go online.
>>
>> I've considered purchasing another CDrom. One that
>> comes with drivers.
>> The one i ave here doesn't appear to hav anyname on
>> it. Its a 24x long
>> fary lightweight offwhite coloured rectangular box.
>>
>> After installing the origial software systems and
>> updatesno notice
>> appeared advising any need for firmware updates.
>>
>> Anyone know what might be the problem (aside from me
>> being a confounded
>> newbie! ) ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kate
>>
>>
>>
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