Hello, major thanks in advance to anyone who answers. I thought my 180 couldn't see a Teac CD-R56S I've got in an external case (don't worry, I wasn't wanting to burn cd's!) because cd's wouldn't appear in the finder - until by chance I noticed it was there in the pc-exchange control panel. It was in italics, like the internal hd, so I couldn't add a pc driver. Whatever I do, changing scsi numbers, cases, leads, adapters, cd's, I just can't get it in the finder. Should I try another drive? or am I missing something really basic here (I haven't had macs long) The odd thing is, I'm certain that when I first got the 180 I briefly hooked it up to the exact same drive - remember looking at both high sierra and joilet disks in the finder. The only difference between then and now, was that the 180 was running a 7.5.3 installed & configured by the previous owner, and now I've got 7.5.3 installed fresh. I also remember the cdrom extension appearing at startup, which I don't get with my installation, though it's in the extensions folder and 'switched on'. I hope I'm missing something basic about mac configuration here cos this is my only external drive...any ideas? Thanks for reading - sorry it was so long!

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fantastic, thanks for the help, got me back on the right track, I thought I was just going nuts but it was an extension issue. For anyones reference the driver that worked for the Teac CD-R56S in 7.5.3 on pb180 was apples own cdrom driver version 5.3.1 which I downloaded from ftp.jmug.org User name: download Password: jmug path: /users/thepickl/sites/archive/mac_driver_museum note this is dir of same guy that helped me, whose html page: http://macfaq.org/hardware/media.shtml#Q2.3.5 directed me to it & has lots 3rd party cdrom ideas. also helpful was: http://www.graphixmad.plus.com/mac_troubleshooter/cdrom_problems.html