NEC Multispin 3xe CD Drive Trouble

[LC_575]

I recently acquired a nice external SCSI drive - an NEC Multispin 3xe cassette-loading CD drive. My problem is that no Mac I have will mount any disc in the drive.

Now I'm 100% sure the drive works. Insert an audio cd (actually I was using a CD-R) and it plays fine. Once it's connected via SCSI, the Mac successfully detects it and there are no ID conflicts. The problem comes with mounting the cd in the drive.

Both of my SCSI capable macs (LC 575 and Performa 6300CD) exhibit this same problem. It leads me to believe that the NEC drive requires some special driver software to work. Would anyone know of it?

 

[Scott Baret]

What sort of driver software are you using? Third party drives often need their own device drivers.

I used to have a 3X NEC, and it worked fine with FWB CD-ROM Toolkit 2.0. If you can purchase a copy of that, you'll likely be in luck with the NEC and for that matter any non-Apple CD-ROM. Otherwise, you'll need NEC's software.

Those old NEC drives are great, I always regret getting rid of mine. Not sure what yours is like, but I could use mine as a standalone CD player as long as there were speakers hooked up to it.

 

[LC_575]

Currently I'm just using the Apple CD driver.

 

[Scott Baret]

The Apple CD driver definitely doesn't work with the NEC drive. CD-ROM Toolkit (2.0 or greater) or the NEC driver are your only options here.

 

[LC_575]

Found FWB Cd Toolkit 4.0.1b on Cnet, and just my luck, I get a 404 error when downloading.

My search continues...

 

[LC_575]

Before I head over to Ebay, might anyone have a copy of FWB Cd rom toolkit and be kind enough to send me a disk image or .sit?

 

[trag]

I don't know if it will do the trick, but try this:

http://www.io.com/~trag/SPEEDYCD.SEA.hqx

 

[LC_575]

Thanks for the file - I'll test it tomorrow.

 

[ccmac]

There is also an old resedit hack for the Apple CD extension that will allow it to mount third party scsi drives:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020606004049/http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_99/12-21-98.shtml

 

[LCGuy]

Try the NEC SpeedyCD drivers. Failing that there's always the good ol' CD-Sunrise driver.

 

[protocol7]

I tried it this hack with 1.4.3 and 1.4.7 in 9.2.2 but the CD-ROM I'm trying to get working (Sony CDU-8012) shows up in System Profiler as a DVD-R and the inserted CD as 2GB and unreadable. Has anyone had this happen and/or know of a workaround?

There is also an old resedit hack for the Apple CD extension that will allow it to mount third party scsi drives:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020606004049/http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_99/12-21-98.shtml