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Re: Non-Apple CD?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00
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Glenn Brackenridge <glenn@gbrack.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Anyone ever got a non-Apple CD to work on a Mac?
> 
> I have a toshiba one that works fine on a PC running W95 (Advansys SCSI)
> 
> SCSI probe sees it, Norton reads a CD label, but MacOS won;t mount it.

It probably will, given appropriate persuasion.

> Any ideas?

You need a driver that'll work with this CD-ROM player.  The only Apple
driver that will even atttempt to run a non-Apple CD player is the one
that comes with System 7.6 (not 7.6.1).

ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/mac/info-mac/cfg/cd-sunrise-22c.hqx
ftp://ftp.amug.org/pub/info-mac/_Configuration/cd-sunrise-22c.hqx

might help.

Rowland.

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