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I'm willing to accept that I'm probably doing something wrong. I just wish I understood what.

I did that and it told me it should go into the extensions folder. I tried accepting that and it didn't load it. I tried again, forcing it to the System folder, and that also didn't seem to load it.

I just tracked that down and tried adding it to the extensions folder on Disk Tools from 8.5, and no change. It really seems like disk tools just isn't loading extensions for some reason?

I need at least 8.1 for HFS+, I tried 8.1 and 8.5 disk tools with the cd extension added last week, no luck.

I tried that, but it didn't seem to load the extension. I can try again I guess.

Ah, I see now. So that comes back around to: where do I get a bootable copy of this OS? Or do I have to scrounge eBay until one comes up for a reasonable price?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I burned them the same way as I burned the Performa recovery disc.

I've tried the 8.1, 8.5, and 8.6 images on Macintosh Garden, my machine has been unwilling to boot any of them.

It just booted a burned copy of the Performa 6200CD Recovery CD that I found. Any ideas how I get a bootable copy of Mac OS 8.1 or above (so I can use HFS+)?

Like I said, they actually burn at 8x, which is the lowest speed my burned supports. I've done it with ImgBurn on Windows 10, Toast 7 on Mac OS X and the Disk Utilities on Mac OS X, no changes for any of them. The only other Mac I have on hand is an SE/30, but that doesn't support booting from CD.

I've set the burner to 1x speed, but the lowest it supports is 8x, so it burns at that.

I burned them at slow speed on what was the only discs I could find at this point, which was Best Buy store brand. I also tried a few Memorex discs that I had around. Nothing I've done will make them boot, but they mount just fine when the machine is running.

It's a burned disk from Macintosh Garden. I've been trying to get my hands on an original copy of Mac OS 8.5, but they're all far too expensive. SCSIProbe reports no issues, and sees the 12X drive as MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-8012 1.0g on SCSI ID 3.

For what it's worth, neither C not Cmd+Opt+Shift+Del+3 worked to boot from the AppleCD 12X I have.

Do you know if it should be any Apple branded drive that works?

The drive works in the computer just fine, so I don't think it should be the extension or software. It just won't boot from it.

I've done that, and no dice. And the Performa has an IDE hard disk, so no conflicts should exist, my CDROM is on 3 though. I've also managed to find another source for only certain drives being 'bootable': http://www.siber-sonic.com/mac/Vintage/CD_DVDdriver.html (number 5 in their list)

Does anyone know which CD drives are bootable? It sounds like only certain drives or firmwares actually are able to boot certain machines, but finding specific information is a nightmare. The best I’ve been able to find is a reference in a thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3774685 My...

I think I accidentally found the problem while I was poking around: http://www.applerescueofdenver.com/products-page/cd-dvd-drives-scsi-internal/applecd-600i-cd-rom-drive-scsi/ That page says: "Note that the Matsushita CR-504-L drive in stock is not Apple branded and may not contain the...

Yea, I absolutely don't want the changed chime and logo and such that the ROM-inator seems to do by default.