I have a BIG favor to ask of some helpful soul on this list. In fact I've posted this request to a couple of lists because finding somebody with just the right configuration may be tough.
I have an Apple Rommed Panasonic/Mitsushiti LF-D211A, 4.7 GB DVD-RAM drive Type II (Atapi) that works perfectly well when hooked up to the main ide bus of an Apple G4. But I need to hook it up to an IDE PCI card on another Desktop Mac. When I hook it up to my VST ATA/66 Ultratek card, it gives me the message that "This Drive is Locked" when attempting to copy anything to the DVD-RAM disk, run a utility, or format a disk. It mounts and copies data from cd's & dvd's to my hard drive just fine, but not the other way around. I have loaded every piece of software I can think of for driver purposes, but to no avail. The drive remains locked when hooked to this ide VST card whether on my G3 s900, PCP 210, or an Apple G4. Clearly the VST card is incompatible with the DVD-RAM drive which came as an option on many G3's and G4's. So I need to find another card brand that will work. If anybody on this list has this model or similar DVD/RAM drive, PLEASE, can you tell me if it has worked properly on your PCI IDE card? Or for anybody with one of these drives (ide) who will soon be working inside your unit, if you could hook it up to your pci card (assuming you have one), and let me know off-list if it functions properly or not? I would greatly GREATLY appreciate the help! I have contacted both ACARD and Sonnet and neither company could tell me if they are compatible. I'd prefer to know what works before I go out and buy one new card after another to find out. Thank you for your help. Dave G3 450 s900 Mac OS 9.1 700 mb ram -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
