jessenator
Well-known member
Relative to my "discovery" last night I wanted to break this out into its own thread. Here's my setup: I'm using a PCI PowerMac (well it's a clone, but let's simplify), with a flashed SIL3112 SATA controller currently running System 7.6.1
Tl;DR
Scenario 1) connected BluRay optical drive 100% boots an HFS CD-ROM (e.g. Power Computing PowerCD 7.6) on the PowerMac
Scenario 2) connected BluRay optical drive is recognized by ASP and FWB CD-ROM Toolkit v2.3, but will not mount media because it's an "unsupported drive." after booting into the Finder.
Forgive my ignorance, but why does the drive operate (at least the CD-ROM specification aspect) in Scenario 1 work no in Scenario 2? And to follow up, what prevents Scenario 2 from being a viable option (if only to access the CD/DVD operations of a more modern, or BluRay in this case, optical drive) on system 7–9?
Tl;DR
Scenario 1) connected BluRay optical drive 100% boots an HFS CD-ROM (e.g. Power Computing PowerCD 7.6) on the PowerMac
Scenario 2) connected BluRay optical drive is recognized by ASP and FWB CD-ROM Toolkit v2.3, but will not mount media because it's an "unsupported drive." after booting into the Finder.
Forgive my ignorance, but why does the drive operate (at least the CD-ROM specification aspect) in Scenario 1 work no in Scenario 2? And to follow up, what prevents Scenario 2 from being a viable option (if only to access the CD/DVD operations of a more modern, or BluRay in this case, optical drive) on system 7–9?