> This may seem obvious, but has happened to many of us. Sometimes, a new device > will not boot up unless the device is turned on first before the computer is > booted up. Try this if you have not already. This is the only way I can get my zip > and syquest drives to mount. Thomas & The Kinders > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:44:28 EDT > Subject: [Duo2400] What's needs for my external CD? > > Hello my wise friends. > > I just received a PlexWriter external CD-R model PX-R24CSe. I hooked it up to > my DUO via the mini-dock checked the extension for Apple CD-ROM and booted up > the DUO. I did not get a mounted drive on the desktop. This particular drive > has the SCSI probe software on it so I ran it and listed as present was "ROM > PX-R24CS version 1.60 SCSI 5". It's the only SCSI device I am trying to load > other than the internal hard drive. There is no address conflict and the SCSI > is properly terminated. > > Beyond the above info I know next to zip about Macintosh CD-ROM or CD-R. I > know with my old external Macromedia RENO external drive it needs a special > extension. > > The Plextor manual that I received with the drive has Windows SCSI users in > mind and has a great amount of setup and trouble shooting for Windows users > but offers very little for the Mac user other than to state that the drive > will work easily with any Macintosh. > > Does anyone have a clue as to where I am ignorant here? I'd just like it to > mount a CD on the desktop and then I'll worry about burning CD-R's :) > > Thanks in advance > Joe Fisher > Tallahassee, Florida >
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