>>I'm about to change the internal drive on the 9600 > >I wouldn't change (nor add) internal SCSI drives in my 9600 unless >they're free, because of their price/performance/convenience ratio >compared to IDE and FireWire: on mine I'll add an ATA controler card for >hard drives and the FW/USB card from my 6400 to read CDs in CD-R and DVD >drives I have in FW enclosures.
I happen to have a spare 12x SCSI internal drive from a PM 6500. I bought one some time ago when I thought the one in my 6500 went bad, but it turned out to be a corrupt driver, so now I have the spare drive. So swapping it into my 9600 will only result in me loosing 12x of speed (the 9600 has a 24x drive). BUT, I have been considering finding a used ATA card and then replacing the internal drive with a cheap IDE CD burner. That way I can get a nice high speed burner on that machine (my current is a 6x). Of course, then I have to decide what to do for a 2nd CD drive since I do a number of CD to CD duplications (I might use one of my Apple 300 external drives.... slow but VERY reliable). Going with an ATA card will also have the benifit of letting me put a cheap large IDE hard drive in the 9600 (right now I have a 4gig boot drive, and a 9 gig data drive... I don't really NEED more space on it, but the flexability could be nice) >>Try disabling the Toast CD Reader extension. > >Be warned that recent versions of Toast may not like that. I used to >always disable this extension, until it caused Toast to crash in some >circumstances from version 5 or maybe 4.1.something. I did try disabling it, and all that happened was the CD burner would no longer acknowledge that a CD was inserted unless Toast was running. BUT, it did lead to an interesting discovery. Toast won't let me add another session to any of these "bad" CDs. (regardless of the status of the Toast CD extension, in fact since it didn't solve anything, I turned it back on). And, interestingly, Toast 95% of the time seems to believe the CDs are an Audio CD with a single track on them (if you use the Toast menu's to check the Disc info). And if I have Toast running, half the time the burner will then mount the CD rather than claim the disc is unreadable, but it will mount it claiming it is an Audio CD. So something is definitly going screwy with the burning and/or with toast. I think it is with the burning that something is going wrong, because a fresh clean install of OS 9.1 still doesn't let me properly read the CDs on my internal drive. I'm hoping to find a cheap stack of 80 minute CDs today or Monday so I can see if maybe the burner just doesn't like 80 minute discs any more. 74 minute discs seem to burn and read correctly (and are not seen as audio CDs and allow me to burn additional sessions on them). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
