>there are FreeBSD drivers available for my CD-R, although they'd need to be >compiled into the kernal, which is probably beyond me.
They would also have to be re-written, as OS X / Darwin uses a IOKit, a completely different driver architecture. Porting *BSD or Linux drivers to OS X Darwin is not a easy process. This quote is from the darwin-users list by one of the non-Apple Darwin contributors: **Begin Quote** No, you can't get a BSD driver to work with Darwin. The 'model' is much different, and you'd essentially have to write a new driver. Those with a lot of driver experience have had some success in "wrapping" a BSD driver (using the source, not a binary version) in IOKit clothing, but it's not easy. **End Quote** >In verbose, several things fail to load. >patchedNDRVsupport cannot load Your system may not need this extension. Here is the description of what this kext does: **Begin** Added PatchedNDRVSupport driver, to deal with the "squished" cursor in Jaguar on onbaord video. For the moment, all it does is turn hardware cursor support off, which does the trick. But there probably is a better solution. **End** URL: <http://www.opendarwin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/proj/XPostFacto/Extensions/PatchedNDRVSupport/PatchedNDRVFramebuffer.cpp> >curioSCSIcontroller is duplicate (perhaps for two buses in my 7500?) I think you are correct on this. Some systems have a different chip for the external SCSI bus (my 9600 has a MESH chip for the internal bus, and a NCR chip for the extenal one). You can see what chip the busses use in OS 9.x with Adaptec's SCSIprobe, it is shown in the pop-up that lets you choose which bus to probe. >oldworld.support.patched.IOSCSIcddrive file cannot be found >oldworld.support.patched.IOSCSIcddrive kernal cannot be loaded The 'drivers' are in /System/Library/Extensions, and end in .kext (Kernel EXTension). I have one named 'PatchedIOSCSICDDrive.kext', do you? From looking at the source (mostly the comments) of this kext, I think this does not have any writing support, only read support. >Can someone tell me how to save the verbose dialogue? I'm hoping that >correcting these problems might fix the CD-R? Thanks! Kris Tilford Can't help you there, it might be in a log file tho. Any one else? -- Charles Dostale System Administrator Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com 824 17th Street Moline IL USA 61265 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 309-797-9898 -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
