MacOS 9.2.1 defect w/r/t to CD-R/W?

[chrisgra]

Toast Titanium 5
ACOM Data external firewire CD-R/W 24x10x40
PowerPC Beige 266 MHz mini-tower with 256M RAM
ROM v$77D.40F2
MacOS 9.2.1
TDK Music CD-R (up to 32x compatible)
Imation CD-RW (compatible with 4x-10x high speed ReWritable drives)
Quicktime 6.0
Disk cache 8160k
Backside L2 cache 512k
Internal CD-ROM drive (v1.4.7 Mat****a Zs20 CD-ROM CR-585
via internal ATA 1 (id=0)
internal ATA 0 (id=0) hard drive
OrangeLink Firewire-USB-PCI board


My Firewire connection seems to be recognized; if I make that external
drive the "source" drive" and insert a pre-recorded music CD in it, the
contents are recognized.

This is also true for setting the internal CD-drive as "source". My
problem is that I have NEVER been able to see a "blank" CD (Imation and
TDK varieties detailed above) such that the software "using" the drive
doesn't ask me to put in a recordable disk (albeit that one is already there).

Is this a Mac defect?! I hardly expect it to be my damn fault or that
of magically defective CDs that only spring into action on my system?!
I am so pleased I spent $5000+ on this system with all its non-MS problems....

Thanks,
christopher e. gray
tigard, oregon
rasputin@teleport.com
503-524-1790

 

[mnkeybsness]

Re: MacOS 9.2.1 defect w/r/t to CD-R/W?

Originally posted by chrisgra
Toast Titanium 5
ACOM Data external firewire CD-R/W 24x10x40
PowerPC Beige 266 MHz mini-tower with 256M RAM
ROM v$77D.40F2
MacOS 9.2.1
Is this a Mac defect?! I hardly expect it to be my damn fault or that
of magically defective CDs that only spring into action on my system?!
I am so pleased I spent $5000+ on this system with all its non-MS problems....

i don't see how you spent over $5000 on this system...and if you did...i pity you

did you have to install drivers for the ACOM drive? perhaps this company that i have never heard of is not good at writing drivers, just like LEXMARK...but i won't get started on my hate for lexmark...

it's my guess that it's the drivers for the drive.