Allan, I was using Toast Lite, a classic application and it wasn't seeing the drive. I downloaded the current version of Toast Lite, installed it while the computer was booted in OS 9. Restarted in 10 and now Toast lite, running in classic mode now sees the cd rom drive.
Thanks Harry on 12/30/02 6:23 PM, Allan Atherton at aatherton at insightbb.com wrote: > Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harryjb at bellsouth.net> wrote: >> I have an external CD Rom Drive. When I boot my G4/400 running OS X pre >> Jaguar, Toast Lite and classic does not see the drive. When I boot the >> computer in 9.2 it works just fine. Any ideas? > > Maybe your version of OSX does not contain the drivers for that CD drive, > and you have not downloaded a driver, if available from the mfr. > > I got a super fast Yamaha FireWire CD drive a year ago for use with OSX, but > it only worked with OS 9.2.2, and Yamaha did not have an OSX driver. So I > got a slower LaCie USB CD drive that worked with OSX. > > All last year I progressed through the Mac OS updates until finally, with > Jaguar, Toast finally could see the Yamaha drive. Evidently Apple made a > driver for the Yamaha drive and put it in the driver bundle what comes with > Jaguar (2nd Install CD?) > > Allan Atherton > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
