>I recently purchased a used 12X CD on eBay and was told by the
>seller the drive was in good operating condition.
One thing that is not clear, is it an Apple CD rom? Otherwise, you
need to use CD rom extension 5.3.1 from system 7.6 (not 7.6.1 but
7.6). It mounts my non apple Matsushita 24x scsi CD rom with a PC
audio connection up to and inclusive 9.1 but it does not appear to
mount an IDE CD rom, even an Apple which I tested on my Beige G3 IDE
CD rom.
Another thing is you must be certain that "Term Power" (power to SCSI
bus) is jumpered. This is different than Termination of scsi bus.
Alot of Hard drives require this setting. Seagate being one of them.
I was told this by a Seagate technician. In any case, this TERM POWER
was jumpered when I pulled out my 12x Apple CD rom and replaced it
with a 24x.
You could also try ChrisMac CD-ROM Ext which worked pretty good with
OS 9.1 but found CD rom ext 5.3.1 to work pretty good.
As far as your 4x not working now, unless you have changed something
in the Extensions like your CD rom extension or pulled any jumpers,
it is not a good sign. Make sure all cables are secure or you didn't
bend any pins which can easily happen if you are not careful. Make
sure there is nothing wrong with the cable. Test each connection by
switching CD rom and HD.
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