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Re: External CD drive - what else do I need?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 00:00
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Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> In article <1dafspp.1tkgwpz8f6nn2N@p51.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:
> 
> > I've had a vague look at Apple's web site myself, but I didn't find the
> > Power CD ROM extension or anything to do with that CD ROM drive.  If
> > it's there, it doesn't appear to be anywhere obvious, although I wasn't
> > looking particularly hard for it.
> 
> I thought it had been rolled-into the standard CD-ROM driver.  I've
> never even seen one of these beasties so I may well be wrong, but
> try just the standard CD-ROM drivers.

Hmm - you're probably right there; now I think about it, the System 7.6
CD-ROM extension will even attempt to run third-party CD-ROM drives, so
you'd expect it to run all the Apple ones.

So...  If Jocelyn is still reading this thread and still having trouble,
I can email you a copy of the System 7.6 Apple CD-ROM extension which
will almost certainly do the trick.

[snip]

Rowland.

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From: real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland)
Subject: Re: External CD drive - what else do I need?
Date: 1998/06/14
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