on 9/10/02 10:04 PM, Mark S. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 24x SCSI CDRom drive that I replaced the oem drive in my s900.
Hi Mark, what model is it? And how old? > The thing is flakey. It will only consistantly read factory CDs and > pretty much ignores anything I've burned. It didn't used to be this way. > Recently it started stuttering around with a music CD. I have to ask what driver you're using? Is it the Apple CDROM extension set, or something 3rd party? In any event give Intech's CDSpeedTools a shot (if you haven't tried it) to see if it might revive your CDROM. http://www.intechusa.com Also, make sure the associated extensions are loaded, not all are critical, but here they are... -Apple Packet Media Access (perhaps not present in OS 8.6?) -Audio CD Access -Foreign File Access -ISO 9660 File Access -UDF Volume Access > I'm looking to replace it. I could get another SCSI, but I have an > unused bus on a Sonnet ATA 100 card. > The simplest would be to replace the thing with a CDRW, but I've heard > that they require OS 9. I run OS 8.6. I think you're referring to iTunes disk burning capability and the DiskBurner app which Apple released with OS 9. Personally I use Roxio Toast under OS 9 and did back in OS 8.6 too. You don't need OS 9, providing you have a disk burning app like Toast. OS 9 just adds some burner friendly Apple software that they never provided in earlier system releases. > Does anyone have any luck with a bootable CDRW or a one of those ATAPI > drives? (I have no idea what ATAPI means). Lots of burners are Mac bootable. I have an old Yamaha 4x8 burner that is. The question is whether your Sonnet card combined with whichever burner you choose will provide boot ability. I don't own a Sonnet card so I don't know what quirks there might be, but the people on this list will hopefully provide some examples of working combinations. Oh and, ATAPI stands for "ATA Packet Interface" but just think in terms of ATAPI referring to an IDE device and being non-SCSI. -Howie -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
