I have an Apple drive that will never boot my PB2400, but my LaCie 32x CDRW
works most of the time.
I am a great believer in SCSI Voodoo. Here is my liturgy. It sounds silly
but, seriously, it works for me, about 80% of the time, which I believe is
way ahead of competitive rituals.
Put CD in drive.
Turn CDROM and PB2400 off.
Connect SCSI cable.
Turn on CDROM power while you look at a clock.
Wait 12 seconds.
Turn PB2400 on by tapping the power key and immediately releasing it.
Wait 2 seconds.
Hold down C key.
Good luck,
Jerry
on 01/05/08 09:19, John Balint at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Get an all-apple CD-ROM drive. Apple drives have "Apple ROM's" in them
> which allows them to be bootable, and the standard Apple CD driver that
> installs with the MacOS will be enough to make it work 100% with your
> system.
>
>
> on 5/8/01 11:34 AM, Chris Chow at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Kate,
>>
>> Installing the right driver for the CD-ROM drive might
>> solve your problem.
>>
>> Speaking from experience you may have however
>> encountered "SCSI voodoo" which may give strange
>> symptoms. When you connect the CD-ROM drive to the
>> 2400, be sure that you turn on the CD-ROM drive first
>> before turning on the 2400. The other thing is to make
>> sure that the CD-ROM drive is terminated ie it has a
>> terminator (a rectangular plug)on the other SCSI port
>> of the drive (if it has an extra one).
>>
>> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> It took me an interesting month to install system
>>> software from CD and
>>> Cdrom. Sometimes an icon of the CD would appear on
>>> the desktop and
>>> sometimes not, sometimes everything would appear
>>> more dimensional and
>>> full coloured, sometimes if the CD loaded the info
>>> didn't seem to be all
>>> there.
>>>
>>> It was very inconsistent but eventually somehow
>>> worked--the original
>>> 2400c system and the 8.0 and 8.5 were successfully
>>> taken in. Even with
>>> help and encouragement from someone on the list
>>> here, (Thanks again!).
>>> I really don't know exactly what I did differently
>>> in the end. By some
>>> miracle it worked.
>>>
>>> My EarthLink CD arrived in the mail and I tried to
>>> load it. But now the
>>> CDrom and the 2400c seem to have nothing to do with
>>> one another! Not
>>> even a partially apearing CD icon on the desktop.
>>> Zilch. The cd-rom
>>> shows up in the drives folder--where one initializes
>>> disks--there it is
>>> listed after the 'macintosh harddrive'. The very
>>> helpful Internet Setup
>>> Assistant enabled me to configure the connection and
>>> go online.
>>>
>>> I've considered purchasing another CDrom. One that
>>> comes with drivers.
>>> The one i ave here doesn't appear to hav anyname on
>>> it. Its a 24x long
>>> fary lightweight offwhite coloured rectangular box.
>>>
>>> After installing the origial software systems and
>>> updatesno notice
>>> appeared advising any need for firmware updates.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what might be the problem (aside from me
>>> being a confounded
>>> newbie! ) ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kate
>>>
>>>
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