Re: [SM] CD drive troubles

[Gary Gorbet]

 > ----- Original Message -----
 From: Eric Hedekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 Possibly a bad CD ROM drive (even though you can tell
 it
 > > is trying to read the CD)?  Or could it be something else?   I 
was wanting
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If you have a factory Matshita drive, you need to use a third party CD driver
such as FWB's CD-ROM ToolKit with its extension.
It was bundled with the factory CD.
Apple's CD driver will not work and if it is also present (or active) in the
Extensions folder, this will become the default driver even if CDT 
is active. I
would just remove the Apple stuff out of the folder.

Actually, if you are running OS 9, you can use Apple's own CD-Rom 
driver from an earlier system (7.6.1) to drive the original Matshita 
drive. You can get "Apple CD-Rom 5.3.1" from

http://www.macdrivermuseum.com/disk.shtml

Your idea, Eric, of booting from a floppy might not be such a bad 
idea. If you have an old Norton or similar emergency disk, you might 
be able to get up that way, then move the 5.3.1 driver into the 
extensions folder of the System folder on your hard drive. Another 
caution: on the Umax machines, the "C" key doesn't always work. You 
might have to use the "Bypass Internal Drive" key combo of 
Command+Option+Shift+Delete while you start up to get it to boot from 
a CD.

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