SE & OS 6.0.8

[transcorpmla]

I'm trying to get my Apple 300e external CDROM player to work with my SE running OS 6.0.8

I know the 300e works with OS 7 but the specs tell me it will go back to 6.0.7 with the proper driver.

Can anyone help me locate a driver or should I try to find a copy of FWB's CDROM Toolkit?

 

[Dog Cow]

I think I've got a copy of the FWB toolkit, so if I do, I can get that to you if all else fails.

 

[porter]

My external Apple 300 drive came with a floppy with some drivers/extensions on it.

 

[tomlee59]

Yes, 6.0.7 is no problem. If you don't need audio support, just use CD Sunrise. Tiny, and works great. If you do need audio support, use Apple's drivers, version 5.3.1.

You'll also need Desktop Manager to prevent attempts at rebuilding the CDs desktop file (!) in many cases.

Head on over to Gamba's site, home.earthlink.net/~gamba2 for links to these tidbits (the links have not been updated since Gamba's unfortunate passing a couple of years ago, so you may have to do additional hunting).

 

[transcorpmla]

Thank you Tom. I'll give it a try.

I have one additional question about the HD on my SE...

The 1987 SE 800k has an internal 120MB HD with SCSI set to ID=0. I have an external 120MB HD connected through the SCSI port, also has a SCSI ID=0. I don't know how to change the ID for the external as the switch has different wires than the pins require.

When I boot up the SE with the external connected, the internal HD doesn't show up on the desktop.

I know I can't have two HD's with the same ID on the same bus, so should I simply set the external to "slave"?

 

[Dog Cow]

If you can't change the external SCSI ID, then try changing the internal HD's ID. One of my internal SCSI disks is an Apple 80MB with an ID of 2.

 

[transcorpmla]

The screws on the internal HD cover are stripped so i can't access the dip switches.

Do you think setting the external to slave will make both drives mount on the desktop?

Thanks.

 

[transcorpmla]

Thanks.

I downloaded Apple's 5.3.1 driver and it mounts the 300e on the SE just fine. Footnote - I tried CD Sunrise v2.2 and Power CD drivers to no avail. Seems the 300e prefers the Apple brand driver in this case.

 

[tomlee59]

SCSI has no concept of "slave," so that won't work. You *must* have unique IDs for devices on the bus, or badness will occur.

In your PM re: Sunrise, you mentioned that you had no system folder. That may be why you had problems. System 6 doesn't formally allow the system file to reside on the desktop. What you think is there is actually an alias. Sunrise may not have been written to figure that out (it is only 20K bytes or so!). I have no trouble with Sunrise on my Plus running 6.0.8 with the same CD drive as yours, the CD300e. Barring any Plus-vs.-SE issues, the major difference is that I do have a system folder, in which resides System, Finder and the driver.

But all that's irrelevant, since 5.3.1 did the trick for you. But in case you run into other odd behaviors, I recommend creating a system folder. It doesn't have to be named anything special (even "nofolder" works as a name), but I do recommend a folder of some sort in which you place the system file and associated bytes.