AppleCD 300 driver

[SalvationCoder]

I have working AppleCD 300 that I'm trying to bring up to normal functionality (i.e., reading CDs when I insert them into the drive).  I have it hooked up to a Macintosh LC running System 7.0.

The drive will read a bootable CD when I restart the computer.  But, then it doesn't let me eject or trash the CD.  Also, if I restart the computer with a bootable CD in the drive and a floppy boot disk (Disk Tools) in the floppy drive, it boots from the floppy and loads the driver from the CD so that the CD reads and it lets me eject it and read other CDs.  (I saw that trick on another thread.). Of course, then I have some other issues due to the floppy having been the boot disk instead of the hard drive.

Anything else and the computer doesn't respond to the CD at all.

For my needs, I have to be able to boot from the hard drive and then read non-bootable CDs from the 300.

I'm assuming I'm missing a necessary driver.  I did get a driver floppy on eBay, but nothing changed after I ran the installation, so I'm guessing it's not a compatible driver.  Apparently it's for an AppleCD 300i instead of the 300 (it says nothing about that on the label, but the readme on the disk says 300i).

I was not expecting it to be this particular.  Which driver do I actually need for my setup?

 

[jhorvath911]

What software exactly did you try to install for the extension? The mac driver museum has the universal apple cd driver along with third party drivers such as cd sunrise etc. the 300 or 300i should be the same drive just one in an external case.

 

[reallyrandy]

http://www.3rz.org/mirrors/macdrivermuseum/disk.shtml

 

[SalvationCoder]

What software exactly did you try to install for the extension? The mac driver museum has the universal apple cd driver along with third party drivers such as cd sunrise etc. the 300 or 300i should be the same drive just one in an external case.

The floppy disk I got from eBay is Macintosh CD-ROM Setup Version 4.0, from 1992.

Update:  I still haven't gotten this working...

 

[SalvationCoder]

Update:  Finally got my AppleCD 300 fully working with version 5.3.1 of the CD-ROM driver, which I found on the Internet and transferred to my LC using Floppy Emu.

I wonder why this made a difference?

 

[BadGoldEagle]

The CD 300e was released some time in '93 (the 150 having replaced the CD SC+ in '92).

That software you got probably shipped with the 150, not the 300.

One year does make a difference apparently...

 

[jhorvath911]

If anyone else needs 5.3.1 it is up above in that link to the driver museum.