Richard wrote: > An ongoing problem has been the SCSI CD drive. It is not very happy > to recognise CD's. Well it seems happy with the OS 9.1 disk, will > sometimes tolerate a CD written on another Mac containing scanner > software, but keeps throwing out CD's written on Win2K machines. The > writers in these are what are used for our scanning service and no > failures have been reported to date, so I think it's fair to say the > CD's should be OK. As a test tonight I have swapped a SCSI CD drive > from a Win2K machine and jumpered it as the Mac one. It is correctly > recognised by the Apple System Profiler but it says no mounted media > inserted (when a CD has been inserted) and of course no drive is showing > on the desktop! The Win2K CD has been written in closed session in ISO > 9660 format as per normal.
Richard, I've had a couple of macs of this vintage in the past, and they both eventually had to have the cd drive replaced, sounds like yours is due too. Only a few are compatible so check carefully, your test with your spare cd might of worked with a suitable third party driver. As for your harddrive, it always seems drastic, but the best way to maintain harddrive health is to low level reformat with a utility of your choice, and reinstall your software. If you get bad sectors you need to put a HD on the shopping list as well. Have you tried the start up key presses? Zap pram: restart while holding command, option, P and R keys. Rebuild desktop: restart while holding command and option keys. I can send you a ram checker if you think you need it. Good Luck Dave Greenwood =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
