It seems to be a problem with PC Exchange not loading correctly, but I'm not sure.
OS 7.5.5, it worked yesterday morning, but now it has gone back to its old ways of only reading mac cd's. PC floppys work just fine, though :~|
When a cd is inserted, it tries to read, but comes up with a message asking to format (which it can't do anyway) or ejekt.
Thanks.
Timothy
im pretty sure you need the extension "foreign file access" i ran into that problem once before.... hope that helps
I tried copying the extension from my LC580, with no luck. Any other ideas?
Yes, it's in the extensions folder, and I restarted.
It has now been reading all formats except data CDR (the one I wanted at the moment). It works with PC CDs, audio CDs, Enhanced CDs, and audio CDRs, but not data CDRs. This same CDR works in my LC 580, though.
If only I could get this figured out...
is it a cd-rw? i had a few run ins with those... but if the other drive reads it, are they both scsi? try swaping them out to try it..
-Justin
Older drives don't like certain brands/types of CD media. Particularly RW. Some types of CD-R doesn't work well either. The best to use for old drives is any kind that is listed as "Music" CD-Rs. They will generally use a media type that old CD players can handle, and thus also the old lasers in old CD-ROMs.
It's not the drive, but the computer/software, apparently. I switched the drives and the problem followed the computer, rather than the drive.
Thanks.