Gaylene wrote: "Why would one drive work and another not work? What about regular (non-system) CD's? Would some programs work from the CD and some not?"
The answer is that Motorola used CD-ROM drives of different makes in StarMax computers, consequently some of us have difficulties when using a CD as a Startup disk - or when installing an OS from 8 upwards. (The Teac 16X SCSI or Hitachi 8X ATAPI CD-ROM drives are but two that cause difficulties.) The reason for the difficulty is that the Apple CD-ROM extension installed by Mac OS 8 upwards cannot 'drive' these drives. StarMaxers with these drives will have had to follow Motorola's advice and use the CD-ROM extension from Mac OS 7.5.3 if running OS 8.0 and 8.1. They could also use a third party CD extension such as FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit. Other list members have suggested tweaking Apple's CD-ROM extension with the appropriate software (not for the faint hearted), or else changing the drive for one that is compatible with Apple's CD-ROM extension. Carl Jackson -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> 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/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
