From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <369EFD00.7233BA20@col.bsf.alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:32:00 +0100 From: Alexandre MARTINS MELO MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Homeier CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Apple's cdrom driver & non Apple CDROM drives References: <199901141731.SAA11562@juliet.astrophysik.uni-kiel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Derek Homeier wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:00:22, Alexandre MARTINS MELO > 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. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]