Hi guys! I'm a noob, tried a bit of googling and searching without much luck. Apologies if there's already a thread that solves my issue!
I recently got a performa 577 with a bad internal CD drive, I was also given an external AppleCD 600e that I wanted to try to hook up so I could play larger CD-based games. Unfortunately, no disk I put in the AppleCD drive is recognized. I've tried programs that supposedly burn HFS disks, burning with ISO9660 settings at the lowest possible speed, etc. I'm pretty sure the external drive is dead as well, although it seems like the computer is recognizing it. I have a pass-through terminator that I've tried both plugged into the cable and plugged into the 2nd port on the drive.
I was able to use floppies to transfer FWB Hard Disk Toolkit to scan the SCSI bus. The drive shows up on ID 3 as a Pioneer CD drive, and as I swap different CD's in there, the capacity in megabytes changes based on the size of data on the disk. It seems like the drive is at least able to read the disk enough to find the capacity? Though still nothing shows up on the desktop. Additionally, SCSIProbe 5.2 recognizes the drive, though when I go to mount it, it fails with the error "not a mountable device". Half the time I try to do this, the computer will also lock up and a force-restart is required.
I also transferred the AppleCD install disk over with floppies, and tried installing the disk software again with no luck.
Is this just the sign of a dead drive? Normally I'd have given up by now but it's teasing me because it seems like it's detected by the computer! I think if it is, I might just try the SD2SCSI route and get the external one with the HD25 connector.
Thanks for the help!
I recently got a performa 577 with a bad internal CD drive, I was also given an external AppleCD 600e that I wanted to try to hook up so I could play larger CD-based games. Unfortunately, no disk I put in the AppleCD drive is recognized. I've tried programs that supposedly burn HFS disks, burning with ISO9660 settings at the lowest possible speed, etc. I'm pretty sure the external drive is dead as well, although it seems like the computer is recognizing it. I have a pass-through terminator that I've tried both plugged into the cable and plugged into the 2nd port on the drive.
I was able to use floppies to transfer FWB Hard Disk Toolkit to scan the SCSI bus. The drive shows up on ID 3 as a Pioneer CD drive, and as I swap different CD's in there, the capacity in megabytes changes based on the size of data on the disk. It seems like the drive is at least able to read the disk enough to find the capacity? Though still nothing shows up on the desktop. Additionally, SCSIProbe 5.2 recognizes the drive, though when I go to mount it, it fails with the error "not a mountable device". Half the time I try to do this, the computer will also lock up and a force-restart is required.
I also transferred the AppleCD install disk over with floppies, and tried installing the disk software again with no luck.
Is this just the sign of a dead drive? Normally I'd have given up by now but it's teasing me because it seems like it's detected by the computer! I think if it is, I might just try the SD2SCSI route and get the external one with the HD25 connector.
Thanks for the help!