>It does read the CD once booted in the original drive or the second one that >you've added?
The original CD drive won't read CDs at all. Won't boot from them, and won't read them once the machine is booted from the hard drive. It just complains that the disk is unreadable and do you want to format it. The replacement IDE CD drive will read the CDs fine once booted from the hard drive, but will NOT boot from the CD when holding down C at startup (or Command-Option-Shift-Tab or Command-Option-Shift-Delete). >Have you tried makng it boot from the added CD by using the Startup Disk >control panel rather than the keyboard shortcut at startup? I haven't tried that yet... didn't think of that. I'll try it now and see what happens. Nope, that didn't work either. Although it did sit and think about it for a while before it gave up and went back to booting from the hard drive. I've given up. I just pulled the hard drive from the bondi, and swapped it into my graphite DV SE. I'll partition the drive there, install the OS, and then swap it back to the bondi. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
