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How do you know the Sony drive "works for Macintosh", and what do you mean
in this case by "works"? Unless the CD drive has Apple ROMs it will not be
handled by the driver software that is embedded in the Mac OS. You will need
a third-party driver, such as CD-ROM Toolkit, or a hacked version of Apple's
embedded driver.

SCSI Probe command "mount" is for hard drives only (and removable drives
that can be read as hard drives), and then only drives where the media is
already formatted for the Mac (and which have the driver software on the
media).

There are some combinations of non-Apple CD drive, OS version and Mac cpu
where you can perform the trick of reading the driver software from the
(bootable) CD media. In these cases a non-Apple CD drive can be made to
mount on the desktop without extra software. But this is done by booting
from the CD, not by mounting the CD after booting from elsewhere.

Trevor


RC <rcsipke@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have a Macintosh Centris 650. I had an extra CD-Rom
> (Sony) that works for Macintosh.
>
> I installed it, but it doesn't show up on the desktop.
> I tried SCSIProbe - Mounting. When I do this, the CD
> spinns and the lights change, so I can see that it is
> accessed. But it still doesn't show up on the
> desktop.
>
> I also changed from SCSI 3 to 5 and 6 and it didn't make
> a difference.
>
> I would really like to get this CD to work.
>
> Any suggestions on what to try.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Regine.
>
>