There is a long story |snip|... I am trying to bring my old Q800 up to operating condition. Previously it was used for a recording studio (Pro Tools) running on 48MB RAN OS 7.5.1 -- it sat for a number of years, but fired up with no problem.
It has a stock HD and came with a Toshiba CD-ROM (X340--probably not a full product id, but pretty much close). It is managed by CD Toolkit 1.5.2. Since I was not much of a Mac expert in the past, it took me a while to realize that I could not just drop in my OS 8 CD and load it up. I have successfully updated it to 7.5.3 using the downloads at the Apple site (19 diskettes took up most my afternoon yesterday, @56k). I thought perhaps the newer OS would facilitate the use of the CD ROM. If I leave CD Toolkit on, I get a start-up message from CD Toolkit saying something to the effect that "...CD Toolkit has a problem with the way the CD was mastered....problems at the end of the data..." Underneath that is the warning that this disk cannot be read by this MacIntosh. I tried using the C key at start-up with the OS in the CD Drive; obviously, with no success, since it is a Toshiba. I tried the same holding down the command-option-shift-delete key. I have tried it with CD Toolkit enabled and disabled, with only the Apple extensions and control panels. I thought perhaps there might be some suggestions as to what I am missing on this list. At the end of all of this, I would just like to have this little computer out there running on 7.6 or 7.6.1 or 8 or 8.1, with access to my little network of other "happy" macs, and run some nubus hardware that extends my old studio operation. I have not even tried to hook the stuff back up, because I wanted to get the base computer in shape first. Any thoughts or ideas? All help will be appreciated. Dave Iverson IverSound, Inc. -- Quadlist 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> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> 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/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
