>I (temporarily) replaced the CD drive in my G3 B&W with a Mitsumi 4802
>CD-RW drive from my PC and tried to use it. I booted into OS X and tried
>to read the OS 9.1 installer CD. It detected it but just asked me if I
>wanted to initialise the disk.
I subbed EXACTLY the same unit for the OEM CD-ROM in my beige
(originally) G3/266 Desktop model. Er... I fitted it and it worked.
I did have problems at one stage, I think it was when I upgraded to
OS 9.1, but not sure. Apple's CD driver didn;t like it for some
reason and it gave me the 'This Disk is unreadable on this
Macintosh'-type rubbish.
I seem to remember a spell running it with the Toast driver made it
happy again- seemed to initialise the hardware to the presence of the
CD-RW drive so it worked henceforth with both Toast & Apple drivers.
Or something.
M.
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