> -----Original Message-----
> From: PowerBooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of dave
> lamothe
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:54 PM
> To: PowerBooks
> Subject: extenal SCSI CD ROM Help
>
>
<<snip>>
> our (or my ) problem. I have an external CD player
> attached through the
> proper SCSI cabling to my power book. When I use the Drive setup up
> under my Macintosh HD icon it detects the CDROM on SCSI
> channel 1 and my
> internal hard drive as SCSI 0. The problem is unlike when
> I install a
> floppy disk and the OS puts the floppy icon onto my desktop, I get
> nothing like that for my CDROM, so I don't know how to make
> the Mac see
> beyond the fact that there is an external CDROM drive and
> into what is
> actually on the CD Rom itself. The CD Rom is terminated,
> I'm at a loss.
<<snip>>
2 possibilities, No.1, is the drive capable of reading a burned disk,
not all are (particularly genuine Apple ones), try with a pressed
(silver) CD such as a freebee 'AOL' one, if this works then the fault
is that the CD-rom cannot read your disk.
No.2 I think that powerbooks do not provide termination power to the
scsi bus, you either need the device to provide term power or use a
(rare) terminator with external power (you do have a pass through
terminator between the Powerbook and the CD-rom I hope).
If this fails then try to find someone with a desktop Mac to test the
drive on.
The other obvious thing that has just occurred to me is to check that
the right extensions are loading, apple cd-rom for an Apple drive or a
3rd party driver for a non-Apple drive, (FBW CD-rom toolkit or
similar) without this it will not be seen.
Ben.
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