Ed Booher wrote: > On 2/20/07, Lee Einer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter Frederick wrote: >>> External media communication with the Mac is only a problem because the >>> vendors refuse to write the correct drivers, not because there is >>> anything inferior about the Mac. >>> >> And yet, the disc which the G4s could not detect works flawlessly on my >> linux box at home. Curious. >> >> Lee > > Lee, > > What format is the disc in? ISO-9660, ISO-9660+Joliet, Rock Ridge, > UDF? Which version of Mac OS was the G4 running? Which CD-ROMs were in > the G4's? Some of the early ones simply can not focus the laser to > read a CD-R/CD-RW format. > > Ed > IIRC the format is UDF. Googling my camera (Sony Mavica CD400) and G4 pulled up posts from Mac users who stated that OSX was simply unable to read the format, although OS 9 is reported to read it without a problem.
My employer has a variety of Macs and most of the employees I speak to have problems with the CDROM drives. Lee Email is protected by DesertGate Spam Filter http://www.desertgate.com
