Apple's cdrom driver & non Apple CDROM drives

Apple's cdrom driver & non Apple CDROM drives

[Alexandre MARTINS MELO]

Hi,

does anybody know what CDROM drive models & constructors are supported
by the apple
cdrom driver ?
I have a PM7200/75 and a Nec CDR222. Since I formatted my HD in HFS+,
the
cdrom driver seems to have problems with its cache file. It works, but
very, very slowly.

With LinuxPPC, there's no problem, but I would like to play a bit with
Lara Croft...

Thanks,
--
Alex


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Re: AtyFB problem solved -> should go into a FAQ or something

[Jon Howell]

> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:20:21 +0100
> Subject: AtyFB problem solved -> should go into a FAQ or something

So it's been a while since I've given the faqomatic sales pitch. :v)
(This is addressed to the whole community, not the original author
above.)

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Re: Apple's cdrom driver & non Apple CDROM drives

[Derek Homeier]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:00:22, Alexandre MARTINS MELO <martins1@col.bsf.alcatel.fr>
wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> does anybody know what CDROM drive models & constructors are supported
> by the apple cdrom driver ?
> I have a PM7200/75 and a Nec CDR222. Since I formatted my HD in HFS+, the
> cdrom driver seems to have problems with its cache file. It works, but
> very, very slowly.
>  
> With LinuxPPC, there's no problem, but I would like to play a bit with
> Lara Croft...
somewhat off topic, really, but look at the recent (or, meanwhile, perhaps 
'previous') news section at macintouch for two links describing a patch to 
the apple cdrom and dvd drivers to make them work with non-apple drives. 
One is at c't magazine:
	http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/26/188/
the other one improves a bit on this in that it supports both apple and non-
apple drives with the same driver, but I don't have it at hand right now.

Hope this helps,
							Derek

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Re: Apple's cdrom driver & non Apple CDROM drives

[Alexandre MARTINS MELO]

Derek Homeier wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:00:22, Alexandre MARTINS MELO <martins1@col.bsf.alcatel.fr>
> wrote:
>
> somewhat off topic, really, but look at the recent (or, meanwhile, perhaps
> 'previous') news section at macintouch for two links describing a patch to
> the apple cdrom and dvd drivers to make them work with non-apple drives.
> One is at c't magazine:
>         http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/26/188/
> the other one improves a bit on this in that it supports both apple and non-
> apple drives with the same driver, but I don't have it at hand right now.
>
> Hope this helps,
>                                                         Derek

The hack that supports both Apple and non-Apple drives is explained at :
                http://www.ResExcellence.com/12-21-98.shtml

I tried it yesterday and it works fine, even with a french version of MacOS 8.5.

Thanks,

Alex.



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