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MacOS9Lives has historically required registration to see attachments, and if you log out you'll see that it still does.

Darn, too rarely browsing the forum logged out :-) ... good point, robespierre. But that means somebody from "within" must have taken this stuff and actively posted it someplace else without crediting or asking permission. Not cool.

@Bolkonskij: thanks for the mention of “65scribe” (good stuff / great find).

You're welcome! Notice the difference? I very much like 65scribe, but he's not churning out videos on a bi-weekly basis nor does he do "brand building". He's just sharing his vast knowledge every now and then - add his splendid humour to it.

Btw, you can watch most of his videos on your Mac Mini in OS9 as Quicktime edition on Cornica too (with official permission, btw) ;-)
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The A1379 Superdrive was made for the Macbook Air and Macbook Pro from 2008 when they stopped building them into the laptops.
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@Bolkonskij: thanks for the mention of “65scribe” (good stuff / great find).
After viewing his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIoWHaHFT4 - might now give my old 9500 some long overdue and much needed attention.
Considering that it did help pay the bills around here for quite a few years. ::)
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Just tested an Apple Super Drive Model: A1379 / EMC No: 2526 with a Quicksilver running OS 9, OS X Tiger and Leopard.
(Via USB 1.1 and a USB 2.0 card.) Same also tested with an MDD. NO-GO. Sorry.
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Holy smokes, that's cool.
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I've just double-checked and the original post was not on April the 1st ;)
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OK so to answer the question @caver01 I setup a VM as I did not want to mess with my already working 7 OS system and had 2 partitions: 1 2GB for OS9 and 1 10GB one for 10.4 Tiger.

I used the Tiger DVD to format both partitions / drives (I'm using UTM for virtual Macs here) and made sure that "Install OS9 Drivers" was unchecked. Installed Tiger to the 10GB drive and everything was OK. So far so good....

Then I installed OS9Lives to the 2GB drive and made that the primary drive and saw the floppy with a question mark - which is what I was expecting as I had not installed OS9drivers.

I then took a previously patched ROM using the python script "ataboot.py" this thread is about which I used on a real G4 PowerBook running Tiger which was created using the .hqx option. Based on what you mentioned previously I used stuffit expander to expand the file and replaced the ROM file in the system folder with this new one.

I booted and saw the floppy with the question mark.

So I'm at a dead end again. Does this patch even work? Will someone ever show it working with a tutorial video? Only time will tell ..... ;)

Glad I didn't open my PowerBookG4 up and spend another £18 on a drive just to find this out! ;P
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Does anyone know if Mac OS 9.2.2 can use an external Apple SuperDrive? I want to use some of my old CDs and DVDs from Mac OS 8 & 9 days and would like to access them in Mac OS 9 running on the UTM emulator. But I don't think I had the external SuperDrive back when I was running Mac OS 9 and am not sure if it there were ever drivers for it (or whether the "Apple CD/DVD Driver" extension supported it).
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Wow, robespierre, that's an interesting twist. Never thought of that.
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MacOS9Lives has historically required registration to see attachments, and if you log out you'll see that it still does.

Not only rage quitting, but the other major reason for not allowing post editing is that it is used by spammers. Spammers are smarter than you think: they know how to do a web search (or these days, paste a question to ChatGPT), then submit the mostly-accurate response to a thread, and later come back and edit in a spam link to ClassyMumbaiEscorts after the initial period when mods are less likely to notice. Their goal isn't for this forum's users to see the spam links: any link they manage to get into a high-ranked forum is automatically boosted by the PageRank algorithm. They would just as soon you don't see their spam.

I agree that a 1-day edit window is generally enough to prevent this.
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