Greetings and felicitations to you all. :-) I just joined this list at the recommendation of a friend on the PowerBooks list, because while I eventually hope to use my new CDRW with my PB 190, I also need to use it on my 7200/120. My friend on the PB list said that you kindly folks on the PowerMac list might be better able to help me solve this problem since I'm having it on the 7200. OK, here goes. Vital stats first, of course, i.e., Meet My Mac:
Power Macintosh 7200/120 603 Processor OS 8.1 48 MB RAM Now, here's the problem: This weekend my boyfriend presented me with a Smart & Friendly 8020 external SCSI CDRW drive -- a used one he snagged from a coworker who was about to throw it out. We successfully got it hooked up to the 7200 and the SCSI address we gave it (6) showed up in Drive Setup, so we know the 7200 recognizes its presence. There was a CD ROM he also brought which had an extension on it called CD Sunrise; I installed that and while it was enough to get the drive to show up on the desktop (albeit very slowly!), between that and the recognition of the SCSI address in Drive Setup I'm sure the drive itself is OK. But it needs more effective software to really use this drive -- it's supposed to be a read/write unit with which I can transfer data back and forth between the 7200 (and perhaps the PB 190 when I get a SCSI adapter). No not the top of the line fastest and bestest -- either drive or software but it doesn't have to be, because not only are my needs minimal but I'm practically broke. We spent most of Sunday afternoon cruising the web looking for free CD burning software for Mac and couldn't find any, plus read through numerous forums in which Mac users with external CDRW SCSI drives were all singing the praises of something called Toast. We ended up at a place called BuyCheapSoftware.com and I found a listing for "Toast 5 Lite," $15, which listed system requirements of 7.something through 9.1 or 9.2. Since I had OS 8.1 I ordered it. Got my CD ROM of Toast 5.2.1 today, and it wouldn't install because I didn't have CarbonLib. But even after I found, downloaded and installed CarbonLib, version 1.0.4 which is said to work on OS 8.1 through 9.04, Toast STILL wouldn't install and it gave me a very weird-looking error message: "CarbonLib--CFURL CreateCopyAppendingPathComponent could not be found" -- No, that's not typos, the lack of spaces was exactly the message, I wrote it down. So...do any of you have any idea why Toast won't install? Or, perhaps a solution which won't cost me any money? In advance, I thank you over and over and over again. ~Yersinia. -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
