you must install "desktop manager" for sys 6 not to attempt to rebuild the desktop of the cd
--- Charles Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Mac SE which I salvaged from the town > dump. It runs great! I > installed a clean System 6.0.8 on the hard drive > which some kind hacker > installed in place of the upper floppy. I > installed the Zip for Mac 4.2 > driver for an external SCSI Zip drive, which works > fine. > > Now I'm trying to get an external NEC CDR-600 3x > CD-ROM to work. I > downloaded and installed the NEC 5.3.1 "Speedy CD" > driver which doesn't > explicitly supports this drive model. Short > version: The device shows up > under SCSI Probe, but I can't get it to mount a CD > volume. > > I also tried Apple's CD-ROM Driver 5.3.1. When > trying to mount voumes, the > system would thrash for a while then report that it > couldn't write or update > the desktop because the volume is locked. Well, > obviously it's locked, but > I'm not sure why that matters. Anyway, I'm stuck. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:system6@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:system6-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:system6-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
