I had had this ongoing discussion about this internal non-Apple Matsushita (panasonic) 24x scsi CD rom pulled from a Umax and placed it in my 7300. It would not mount any CD's, so I tried CD rom 5.3.1, to various third party CD apps and basically settled with InTech's Speed Tools. I am going to sell my 7300, so I erased everything and initialized the drive and installed a clean Mac OS 9.1.
Now the interesting thing is that it now mounts CD's without any other CD rom extensions, other than the one that comes with OS 9.1 (9.04 too). Although, it is a little sensitive. I installed Toast 5 to see what would happen and it quit mounting CD's. I did another clean re-install and it mounted CD's again. I had a freeze and had to restart and it wouldn't mount any CD's after that. I then rebooted with my OS CD and then restarted back in my Mac OS 9.1 and it started mounting CD's again. So I'm not sure whether to use CD Speed Tools but it does work pretty good, aside from this little quirkiness. But it does seem that if you use Toast, you would have to use Speed Tools. I thought this interesting. "Macintosh fans may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." alternate e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OS 9.1 7300 w/G3 400/1 sonnet card, 272mb RAM--yamaha 6x4x16 external CDRW Beige G3 Desktop 233 w/Motorola ZIF 466mhz processor, Rev B ROM DIMM, 544mb RAM (which are linked together by a MacSense 4 port DSL router) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
