You know, I just recently got an Apple CD-ROM drive (same drive as the Matsushita drive that came with my S900, but with the apple logo on it) off of eBay. You can get one as cheap as $4.99 (the 600i and the 12x CD-ROM drive).
I have to reburn my backup copy of 9.1 so it will actually be bootable. The only thing I don't like is the audio cable that goes from the motherboard to the Apple CD-ROM doesn't fit. Ah well. --- Alan Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nancy Haitz wrote: > > > You don't have to install it internally either. > Alan Kim has always > > had great success booting his S900 from an > external CD-RW drive. > > --------------- > I used to be stumped and bothered by the > non-bootablility of the factory > Matshita drives. > Tried and no longer interested in hacked drivers and > other stuff that's been > mentioned that has worked for many listers. > > Mine is a 24x drive that came with Supermacs just > before the company ceased > operation. > It's been perfectly fine for ripping tracks from > CDs, reading data, and and > other reading functions. > > Our Supermacs' external SCSI port is fairly reliable > and always available > when the internal stuff goes haywire. > I've been able to boot from the external SCSI burner > with the > Com/Opt/Shft/Del buttons without failure - knock on > wood. > In addition to running maintenance utilities such as > Disk Warrior from it, > it has saved me when I needed to reacquire the hard > drives with Hard Disk > Speed Tools or fresh installing OS. (Ofcourse if you > have a bootable CD > drive built-in, you're ok.) > > Another advantage to an external SCSI drive or > burner is the original > internal non-Apple ROM'd Matshita CD drive can still > be used for running the > OS install disc after booting from the external. You > have a second CD drive > available. > To explain further, I've had good results installing > OS if the OS install > disc itself isn't used as the boot disc. > (I've run into some quirks trying to both boot from > and install from the OS > install disc.) > Boot from an external CD drive (burner in my case) > using something like > HDST, then run the OS install on the internal CD > drive. > (If you load the Mac OS install disc in the external > CD drive and boot from > it, my experience has been the Matshita drive > becomes non-functional.) > > This sounds more troublesome then it is. > One less thing to mess around with the internals of > the s900 and I still > retain use of the 24x Matshita drive which works > just fine for most things I > need to do except for booting from it. > Dispite what's been said about workarounds to be > able to boot from the > Matshita drives, I find it simpler to to just boot > from an external. > > As mentioned in previous posts, I have a 8x16 LaCie > burner and a 4x2x6 > Yamaha CDRW. > The Yamaha was purchased new for around $500 (yikes) > and is now wrapped up > and stored as a backup. > The LaCie someone gave it to me in its original box > after it was replaced > with a faster burner. > > I've mentioned this in one form or another in > previous threads. > > Hope this helps. > > Alan > > > > > -- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > ===== "Tomboys don't wear pink.." -jal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
