Brian wrote: >I've been meaning to get back in touch with FWB and send them the drive >(external SCSI Ricoh -RW) as it's not yet on their list of supported >drives, and if I send it in they said (a few months ago) they'd add support >and give me a free copy of the CD tools, ...
They'd HAVE to give you a free copy, because SpeedTools by Intech is really nice. The price is now $50, but you might run into an old version one day. Also, they used to have a "free upgrades for life" policy; perhaps that's still in effect. I'm testing version 4.02 but what's for sale now is version 6. http://www.IntechUSA.com/CDInfo.html But anyway: I found success (using a non-Apple 24X CDROM for ripping along with the Ricoh MP6200S burner) by (Duh!) disabling the Toast CD extension (Duh, again). This effectively allows the SpeedTools piece to run not just the CDROM but the burner as well. So, in other words the old rule applies: only have one CD reader extension present if you can help it run using a non-Apple CDROM and a burner. If all you have is the burner and no CDROM, Toast is all you need. If you also have an Apple CDROM, Toast plays nice with that and lets it run the CDROM as normal. What I found is that using the Toast piece to read the burner as normal and a third party driver to read the non-Apple CDROM is problematic, even though each player knows to read just "their own" drive. When SpeedTools is the driver, it read both drives. In fact, as the extension (actually a CP, not an EXT) loads, there are icons for each drive, with SCSI ID numbers on them. Slick. Everything but Apple's old CDROM ext 5.3.1 appears to play well with the later audio extension, necessary for ripping audio CDs. So today I was finally able (for those keeping score at home) to use the 24X drive to quicky extract a CD using Toast. But I'm not out totally out of the woods yet. When first I mount the CD and drag it into the window, I'll get that "Mac OS error, -17" error. But a second time always works. I'm supposing maybe SpeedTools 4.02 may not be fully compatible with the later bits that come with OS 9.1. I may try a lesser OS to see about that. >FWIW. The 5.2.2 toast might be worth a try, for the original poster (who >IIRC had both a 3rd party CD-ROm and a 3rd party CD-R drive). I'll do some more reading. I had remembered the updates after 5.0 or 5.1 mainly to do with compatibility with new burners, Disk Burner and other stuff that shouldn't effect a 3-year old burner hooked to an old-world Mac. But who knows? -David -- 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
