At 06:56 -0700 30/07/2003, Bruce Johnson wrote:
You need to have either a version of Toast that works with your computer and drive (and even with Toast, I'm not sure you won't get the same result with a blank cdr/w) or Apple's Disk Burner software (which does do what you want: pop a blank disk in and have it mount as an empty disk to put files on) but that, iirc, requires OS 9. (and it may not recognize that new drive even then, though you can hack drivers for DIsk Burner)
That's what I concluded. I Google-searched all over for an earlier version of Toast, but no go. So, I ordered an OS 9.1 disk from OWC this morning. Guess I'l have to take my chances on an install on top of my OS 8.6 and hope I don't lose all my data. And also hope it works. I heard offlist from someone else that USB 2 devices won't work on Macs.
upgrading to 9.1 from 8.6 is quite painless. USB2 devices will not work at USB2 speeds; some will work at USB 1 speeds. This is complicated by the fact that the USB marketing groups just jiggered the specifications so that sometimes USB2 refers to USB 1 devices. <Sigh>
On the bright side, if you install CD Authoring and Disk Burner form the 9.1 disk, you probably don't need toast, if your drive is supported.
If you do install both Toast and Disk burner, be aware you'll probably have to rename your Toast CD driver extension with a space at the beginning to force it to load before Disk Burner and CD Authoring, so that both will work. There's an Apple technote about this issue.
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