Two questions: 1) What prefs plist holds the data on what to do with inserted blank cd's.
2) Where does OSX stash the disk image it creates before you burn a CD? I'm still having major difficulties in getting CD burning to work reliably with my system: 7600 w G4 upgrade, 768MB Sonnet Trio ATA card and a Lite-On 48-20-48 CDRW (Cendyne labelled, but fully supported acc. to System Profiler, and the model and Rom revision are listed as supported on Apple's iTunes site). I also have a Radeon 7000 card in the system. The boot disk is a SCSI drive on the 7600's internal bus. What happens is this: I'll insert a blank CD. It pops onto the desktop as an empty CDR; I copy files to it. Most of the time if I just drag a bunch of files (roughly 250 megs seems to be the magic number) to the disk, then drag it to the burn icon on the dock or select File-Burn CD, the expected dialog about what to do doesn't appear, just the spinning beachball of death. Other times it will work, perfectly, and the drive delivers close to it's supported top speed, so I don't think it's the drive. Finder will not restart easily, if I beat on it enough times it'll restart, but the CD will not burn. Selecting Shut down puts the system into an eternal wait state, and I have to power down to restart the system. It is not: lack of space on the boot drive (2.7 GB free) or amount of stuff on the cd (I tested this once, by dragging small groups of files at a time over, then dragging to the burn icon. I kept getting the proper dialog immediately. I eventually made a disk with 659 mb on it. However this method has not proven foolproof.) I do not have a copy of Toast to test this thing, nor do I plan on spending $100 to get one. The only software that came with the CDRW is for PC's only. Moreover, I've had serious troubles trying to get OSX installed to the IDE drive I've got on the system, too. Using XPostFacto, I've managed to get it to boot twice off the CDRW, but the instalklation did not complete. (Some of this time was wated trying to get it to install to larger than 8GB first partition, which has been fixed. Once I went off with the system installing OSX. When I got back a few hours later, expecting it to be waiting for the second CD, the system, somehow, restarted, found my OS9 system disk. When I looked, none of the IDE stuff was showing on the desktop... The fact I'm having problems with all of this make me suspect the Sonnet drive controller, however, since I've got such a non-standard setup, I doubt I have any hope whatsoever of geting official support from any vendor involved with this...but if I could somehow figure out what's happening when the CD burner goes off into beachball land I'd have a start at least. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
