CD ROM Tool Kit works for me but you must 1st disable the Mac Driver.
With OS 9.1, I consider good ole "Conflict Catcher 8.0.6" a must have. RHB
Judy Antipin wrote:
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> I followed somewhat the CD-ROM driver discussion on the list a while
> back - I downloaded the 5.3.1 driver and installed it - did not fix my
> problem. I have a PowerTower 225 with a PowerLogix G3 card - I've
> experienced some problems with the CD-ROM for quite a while - would get
> low/bad cache messages when I inserted one, but they'd still work. I was
> using CD-ROM Toolkit drivers - which I had upgraded from the Power
> Computing version that came with the PTP. As I upgraded MAC OS from 8.0
> to 8.5 and then 9, the CD-ROM problems got worse, culminating with my
> upgrade to 9.1, which, on mounting a CD, or trying to open a disk,
> forces a finder quit and a fairly dramatic "seizure" where the desktop
> flashes on and off until it freezes totally. So....I went to the Low
> End Mac Page, and found a link through to a Resedit hack of several
> possible versions of the Apple CD/DVD Driver
> (http://www.ResExcellence.com/12-21-98.shtml). I picked version 1.2, and
> the hack seems to solve some of the problem - I can open the CD-ROM and
> its contents o.k., but if I try to open another application with a
> CD-ROM mounted the app quits.
>
> Was wondering if using CD-ROM toolkit with the Apple CD/DVD driver would
> work, or just compount the problem. Any suggestions appreciated.
> Judy Antipin
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