>> Does anyone have any experience with the Yamaha CRW8424S 8x/4x/24x
>> SCSI CDRW drive? It is an internal drive, which means I would have
>> to remove my Apple CD-ROM drive from my 7500. Will this CDRW drive
>> allow me to boot from CD with the "C" key?
>
> It may, but chances are it won't. One thing you can do, is to find an
> old external SCSI case (like from an Apple CD150 or CD300) and put
> the CDRW in there. Then you can still boot from the internal, and
> burn on the external. (Easier to copy CDs with two drive also) You
> could do it the other way around too, putting the Yamaha internally,
> with an Apple ROMed drive externally to boot from.
I have a CRW8424SXZ External SCSI drive, it is not bootable, tried many
ways. I can only mount CDs using Toast or SCSIProbe. I LOVE the drive,
4Meg buffer is awesome!
John
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