>Is the Cd/DVD driver with 9.1 incompatible with powerbook 6x and 8x drives? > >My 1400/G3/9.1 just refuses to run normally with either the as-is Apple 6x >drive I got it (hmm, inconclusive) or the known good 8x (strange). > >It will boot with all extensions disabled but if anything is enabled at all >is seems to hang after a couple extensions (of any sort) or will boot but >verrrryyy slowly and never does load the desktop in any sort of reasonable >wait period. > >The CD gets polled at bootup, it doesn't make a difference if there's a >disk in it or not. If I had started with powerbooks not Apple desktops I >think I would now hate SCSI. The desktop models, just plain WORK.
Yo Brian I had the very same problem when I installed an internal Radeon CD-R in place of the stock DVD reader from Apple. I was able to fix it by upgrading to System 9.2 from 9.0.4 (via 9.1). Apparently the ROM was too old to recognize the Radeon Drive, because I saw that drive listed in the Authoring Support folder from 9.2. I was having weird buggy things happening, like the cursor leaving tracks all over the screen, so I reinstalled 9.1 OVER 9.2, saving the Authoring Support folder to transfer, and have had no problems since. You COULD try booting from a different System (even an older one) just to see if the bug lies within System 9.1. Still checking my mailbox every day to see if there's a parcel in it : ) Good luck with it. m -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
