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Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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,

In itself it means nothing, like plenty of people Hisoft just take an
internal drive and badge it as their own.

> not sure if that
> means anything because HiSoft make Amiga software and hardware
> interfaces etc (they do a SCSI interface and CD-ROM drives)

It should be fine anyway, I used one of their CDs on my mac with no
probs.
 
> 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.

Tell him to go to www.dowload.com (or any better site if he knows of
one) and get SCSI probe, it will tell him what mechanism the drive uses,
mine was a Toshiba.

>  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? 

No.

> if not, can
> anybody advise where I might find a CD-ROM driver?  (tis a SCSI drive,
> it should be standard..?)

Apple may have the drivers for thier drives on their site but they tend
to work only with Apple brand drives, might be worth trying anyway.
Otherwise your only real choice is to use FWB CD ROM Toolkit which most
Apple dealers will gladly sell you.