Apple CD-ROM 5.3.1 from OS 7.6 will work with any brand of CD drive. It can be extracted from the OS installer using Tome Viewer. Years ago Resexcellence used to have info on how to modify a wide range of Apple CD drivers with a hex editor so that they'd work with any drive. Not sure if that info is on the web anymore.
This looks like it might have some good info: http://www.siber-sonic.com/mac/Vintage/CD_DVDdriver.html On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Matthew Wheeler <[email protected]>wrote: > You don't state whether or not it's an Apple drive. Most 3rd party drives, > IIRC, didn't work with the Apple driver and you needed something else. The > (Adaptec at the time) Toast CD driver was a popular choice. It covered a > lot of models. > I love the Q605. Put a full '040 in it and it's an awesome small Mac. > > Mw > > On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:41 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I was recently given an old Quadra 605, I have an external SCSI CD drive > that I'm trying to to use, but the machine is not recognizing it. There is > a CD driver in the extensions folder. Any suggestions for me? > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
