Hi Howie, >You need a driver for that CDROM drive. There's a few choices, and the two >most used are Apple's driver 5.3.1 from Mac OS 7.6 which supported many 3rd >party drives. You can get it here... >http://www.macdrivermuseum.com/disk.html
I think the CDROM drive is faulty. I'd already installed Apple's 5.3.1 driver and it ran an external CD Drive fine but the internal one is still kaput! >And there's the favorite, a demo though, called Intech's CDSpeedTools. It >allows several restarts before it requests payment. Get it here... >http://www.intechusa.com/CDDemo.html?296,19 I'll give this a go. >As for the "licensing extension" forget about it. Really. It does nothing >but signify your computer as a UMAX S900, instead of a Apple 8500 (the >machine it most relates to due to the motherboard). That's all it does. None >of us use it anymore. Forget it ever existed, it's not the problem. Pity, it would have been an easy fix. I didn't really believe that it was the problem but I'm clutching at straws here. I'd assumed that there would be a lot of information on the Net but all the sites I've visited point to the Supermac website as the main resource centre and, as far as I can see, it no longer exists. >If you can install a System (7.6 to 9.1) on an external drive, your S900 >should boot from it. As long as the external SCSI bus is terminated, it >should work. I managed to boot the external OS 8.1 drive with extensions off and disabled a couple of non-essential extensions. After that it booted fine with the extensions enabled!! Unfortunately, I still can't boot from the OS 9.1 drive. It hangs with the cursor on a grey screen. Trying with extensions off gives the same result. I know that most of the list members will be running 9.1 (or later) but so far it isn't working for me. Thanks, John The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. As internet communications are capable of data corruption no responsibility is accepted for changes made to this message after it was sent. In addition, no liability or responsibility is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments ( if any ). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
