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Can't get cd-rom to work
Name: Mel Date: November 18, 2002 at 17:06:41 Pacific OS: ? CPU/Ram: ?
Comment:
I have a powerbook 520c and a apple CD300 external SCSI cd-rom. I downloaded the install software from the mac driver museum but still can't get the cd-rom to work. Can anyone help me? I must be doing something wrong.
Name: the pickle Date: November 18, 2002 at 20:53:22 Pacific
Reply:
What drivers, and what brand of CD-ROM drive? What OS?
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Response Number 2
Name: Mel Date: November 19, 2002 at 08:41:47 Pacific
Reply:
I downloaded the drivers from the Mac driver museum web site. I tried the Apple Power CD driver v1.01 and the Apple universal CR- ROM driver 5.3.1. Both of these I could not get it to work. I have a Apple 300 cr-rom drive and a 7.5.1 OS Please help.
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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle Date: November 19, 2002 at 09:23:19 Pacific
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1) Are you absolutely sure the CD-ROM works? 2) Do you have it properly terminated? 3) What CDs does it not work with? Audio CDs? Mac-formatted data CDs? Photo CDs? ISO 9660 CDs? CD-Rs? CD-RWs? All of the above?
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Response Number 4
Name: Mel Date: November 19, 2002 at 09:43:11 Pacific
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I know that the CD-Rom turns on and I have it connected properly but the Powerbook does not even recongnizes the cd-rom driver.
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Response Number 5
Name: the pickle Date: November 19, 2002 at 13:07:09 Pacific
Reply:
That's not what I asked.
Do you know for sure that the CD-ROM drive works? (In other words, has it been working on another Mac recently?)
Is the SCSI bus terminated? PowerBooks don't provide SCSI termination power, so there may be some difficulties with that.
If it's not working, it must be not working with some sort of CD. What sort?
Geez, I really get tired of asking the same questions over and over. People can't expect us to answer their questions without providing the information we ask for...
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