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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Storage => Topic started by: nanopico on January 01, 2019, 07:45:24 PM

Title: SCSI CD-ROM Not working if booted from HD
Post by: nanopico on January 01, 2019, 07:45:24 PM

Got a lovely clone and I pulled the originall SCSI HD, enabled termination on the CD-ROM, put in a SATA card and drive in.  I can boot from the CD drive to install and boot from the HD.  When I am booted to the HD the CD drive shows up in the System profiler, but will not read or show that it has a disc inserted. 

Any idea why it boots from the CD drive but won't use it when booted from HD?

Title: Re: SCSI CD-ROM Not working if booted from HD
Post by: FdB on January 01, 2019, 08:38:51 PM

Appropriate driver(s) for the specific CD drive present / resident on the booted HD?

IIRC.. the Motorola StarMax clones required an additional "enabler" available
from their original install disc(?), when clean-installing / upgrading HD/OS from
Apple source discs. Same may be true for Power Computing clones?

Similar prob with the StarMax, once upon a time. Can’t remember the
little “fix” (enabler, extension, etc.) But now, upon checking StarMax
original install CD… it came with a version of FWB’s CD-ROM Toolkit
which may be of some help.

And along the way this morning… found this:
http://www.3rz.org/mirrors/macdrivermuseum/disk.shtml
(has the Toolkit… along with some other possibly helpful items).

Title: Re: SCSI CD-ROM Not working if booted from HD
Post by: ssp3 on January 02, 2019, 04:14:57 PM

Try Apple CD-ROM 5.3.1 or one of the modified CD or CD/DVD drivers and see if one of them works with your drive.
Some info:
http://siber-sonic.com/mac/Vintage/CD_DVDdriver.html