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shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 13 Mar 2003 : 04:03:32 I have just recieved my optical drive(along with other things). My Quadra650 (os 8.1 &/or os 7.5.5) sees the drive but claims that thier isn't a disk present(yes I have inserted a disk), any advice/help? shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick)
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 13 Mar 2003 : 05:02:52 Sure you have the correct drivers installed? Have you paid attention to all the SCSI voodoo and other crap? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 13 Mar 2003 : 14:58:18 When you put a CD in can you eject it ? , basically if you keep pusing the CD eject button does the tray go in and out? If so the machine has no idea the driveis connected and you'll need a 3rd party extension to make it work. IIRC there was ONE version of Apples CD ROM extension that supported almost any drive but I can't remember which. However if you go to lowend make and look at their Daystar Support pages one of the downloads is for CD ROM toolkit which will work with almost any CD ROM drive, it also has a little control panel to let you do some funky stuff with the drive. Incidentally, I haven't seen it mentioned here, there is a neat little extension called CD icon killer. What this does is force all files to use their generic icons and speeds up CD browsing quite a bit on 68K Macs, especiallay when using magazine cover discs. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 13 Mar 2003 : 16:22:59 quote: IIRC there was ONE version of Apples CD ROM extension that supported almost any drive but I can't remember which. Version 5.3.1, IIRC! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7

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