I just recently bought an old (probably pretty slow, but it is new enough to have a tray and not the holder cartridge) Apple CD external along with a regular PB scsi CABLE (not the connector). I am running 7.5.5 on that PB520 and I simply connected it and it recognized it right away with the regular system extensions. I can't remember what CD I tried but it was probably an installer CD for AOL or some program, and not a homemade one. Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm >> > <<snip>> >> our (or my ) problem. I have an external CD player >> attached through the >> proper SCSI cabling to my power book. When I use the Drive setup up >> under my Macintosh HD icon it detects the CDROM on SCSI >> channel 1 and my >> internal hard drive as SCSI 0. The problem is unlike when >> I install a >> floppy disk and the OS puts the floppy icon onto my desktop, I get >> nothing like that for my CDROM, so I don't know how to make >> the Mac see >> beyond the fact that there is an external CDROM drive and >> into what is >> actually on the CD Rom itself. The CD Rom is terminated, >> I'm at a loss. > <<snip>> > > 2 possibilities, No.1, is the drive capable of reading a burned disk, > not all are (particularly genuine Apple ones), try with a pressed > (silver) CD such as a freebee 'AOL' one, if this works then the fault > is that the CD-rom cannot read your disk. > No.2 I think that powerbooks do not provide termination power to the > scsi bus, you either need the device to provide term power or use a > (rare) terminator with external power (you do have a pass through > terminator between the Powerbook and the CD-rom I hope). > If this fails then try to find someone with a desktop Mac to test the > drive on. > The other obvious thing that has just occurred to me is to check that > the right extensions are loading, apple cd-rom for an Apple drive or a > 3rd party driver for a non-Apple drive, (FBW CD-rom toolkit or > similar) without this it will not be seen. > Ben.
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