For months my external Yamaha 4416S SCSI CDRW worked OK with Toast Titanium 5.2 (Mac OS X 10.1.5, XPostFacto 2.2, PowerMac 8600/XLR8 G4 450).
The CDRW disappeared from Mac OS X after I had to reinstall the system but I really don't know what I should do to make it reappear again. With the old system I did have to boot in verbose mode or install the AppleScript Update 1.8.3 before the CDRW was recognized so the external SCSI chain has always been somewhat flaky... Now Toast doesn't see the CD burner anymore (it sees it sometimes, though, in about 5% of reboots. When booted into Mac OS 9.1 the CDRW is OK). I think I have roughly the same setup as before but I really don't know what system component is still missing. I have unsuccessfully tried the following: 1. Booted in verbose mode and installed AppleScript Update 1.8.3 but these old tricks didn't bring the CDRW back anymore. 2. Let XPostFacto 2.2 reinstall BootX and its extensions. 3. Used XPostFacto's Throttle values 1, 8, 24 or none. 4. Inserted a CD in the CDRW before booting. 5. Installed El Gato's SCSI CD-RW Helper 1.0.1 although it shouldn't be needed after Mac OS X 10.1.3 anyway. 6. Upgraded Yamaha CRW4416S Firmware from 1.0f/(MMC-1) to 1.0j/(MMC-1) (also upgraded Sonnet Tempo ATA100 Firmware from 2.2.3 to 2.3.9). 7. Upgraded iTunes from 2.0.4 to 3.0.1 although this shouldn't matter for SCSI devices. Does iTunes support SCSI burners? 8. Checked the disk with Repair Privileges 1.1 and Disk First Aid. 9. Deleted /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and /System/Library/Extensions/PatchedIOSCSICDDrive.kext and rebooted. Is there still something else I should try? Is 10.2 any better than 10.1.5 with external SCSI devices? -- Matti Haveri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/> -- 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:[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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
