CD-ROM drive on a Mac

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From: Iain Hibbert
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:00

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hello again!

A friend of mine came around the other day, asking for advice on a
problem he has - he has a Mac (not sure which one, but its not a
PowerMac) that he bought, but he has a CD-ROM drive that doesn't
work - it seems that its a Hisoft Squirrel drive, not sure if that
means anything because HiSoft make Amiga software and hardware
interfaces etc (they do a SCSI interface and CD-ROM drives)

anyway, I haven't been to have a look yet so this is hearsay..
apparently he can plug it in ok (tis external) but it never appears
on the desktop - the guy he got the mac from said it works fine, but
just needs the driver downloading from the Apple website (this is
where I come in :) but we can't see anything like that there - there
is nothing about Squirrels that seems relevant there..  I would guess
he has System 7 installed (but not the System 7 install disks), is there
a chance that this will work without downloading a driver?  if not, can
anybody advise where I might find a CD-ROM driver?  (tis a SCSI drive,
it should be standard..?)

iain

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