Had a similar problem myself over here.. Took the Plextor 8x4x32 out of
my PC and put it in place of my G3 (B&W) internal CD-Rom.. Well it
appeared to work fine. It would mount disks no problem and would even
boot from an OS 9 cd.. I was attempting to reinstall OS 9, it would get
about 25% on the progress bar and lock up.. Everytime I tried it..
Removed the Plextor, put the Apple CD-Rom back in and it installed just
fine.. I gave up on the Plextor, sold it to a friend and ended up buying
a Firewire Yamaha 16x10x40.. :)
A little off subject but, can anyone tell me what the speed of the
CD-Rom is in my B&W G3/350 Rev 1?? When I booted from a Mandrake Linux
CD, it detected it as a 10x but I would think that 24x was out when it
came out at least?? Also, since I cant order the drives from Apple, can
anyone recommend a good CD-Rom replacement?? I'd like to bump it up to a
40x or so..
Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: G-List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Mike Jardine
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:14 PM
> To: G-List
> Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-RW drives and G3
>
>
> >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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