CD-ROM does not mount

Hi Oivind. Welcome to the forum.

That sounds as though the drive is working and Apple CD Player is present but it lacks auxiliary files.

Please check that System Folder>Extensions contains Apple Photo Access,
Audio CD Access, Foreign File Access, ISO 9660 File Access and UDF Volume Access…

Hi, Oivind -

The name of the file (in English) is Apple CD/DVD Driver. The version of that which is used by OS 9.2.2 is the same as the one used by OS 9.2.1.

Make sure it didn't accidentally get moved to the Extensions (disabled) folder - you can check in Extensions Manager; if it is listed but unchecked, checkmark it and restart.

You can also use Sherlcok to search for it on the hard drive. Sherlock works with a partial-name search.

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If it is actually missing completely -

If you happen to have a copy of the OS 9.2.1 download update on your hard drive, you can extract that file from it. You can use this utility TomeViewer to extract (expand) any files you want from an Installation Tome on an OS Install CD or download disk image, without running the installer.
How to use TomeViewer

If you do not have a copy of the OS 9.2.1 download update on your drive, you can download it from here -
Article #120030 - Mac OS 9.2.1 - Download and Info

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The OS 9.2.1 download update is quite large; if you have a copy of an OS 9.2.1 Install CD, you can obtain it from that. The trick, of course, is getting the drive to work well enough to mount and read that CD.

To do that, you can get a copy of the extension in English from this site - http://www.panix.com/~dac/macdgm/ - at the bottom of the page. The English version of the extension should work fine, but will contaminate the langauge of the installed OS as far as future updates go (if any). If you use the English extension, I suggest you do so only until you can replace it with one in Norwegian.

Good luck -

Before you give up, please use your latest OS 9 install CD to make a Clean System Installation alongside your existing System Folder. your existing System Folder will be denatured and preserved under the new name Previous
System Folder.

Does the CD work when you now Reboot to the new System Folder?

Hi, Robbie -

<ahem> Um, if the drive won't mount a CD, then an OS 9 Install CD can't be used.

Hey Don.

Duh… How obvious that is!

Sorry, Oivind.

Hi, Oivind -

I guess that's a good-news/bad-news thing.

Glad you found what was wrong.

Actually, not very obvious. I have the problem that I can boot from a system CD and install the OS (9.1) but when I boot from the hard drive the CD will not mount.

Everything was working fine until I decided to give my old Mac to a friend and thought I ought to initialise the hard drive and re-install the OS so that everything would be nice and new for him!

Any thoughts?

Hi, Alf -

Odd. Sounds like there's a comflict in the OS on the hard drive preventing the mounting of CDs.

Make sure the File Exchange control panel is active in Extensions Manager, and that these extensions are present in the Extensions folder -

Apple Audio Extension

Apple CD/DVD Driver

Apple Photo Access

Audio CD Access

Foreign File Access

ISO 9660 File Access

UDF Volume Access

If you have Toast installed, try disabling Toast's CD Reader extension.

There can be a conflict between the extensions Iomega Driver and Apple CD/DVD Driver; although that usually does not cause that problem, you might try disabling the Iomega Driver extension.just to see if it is a contributor.

Good luck -

Hi Alf: plz clarify for a Mac "newbie" who has similar problem. I booted from OS 9 CD & successfully installed 9.2 but there is no desktop icon for either CD or FD. I tried to reboot from CD (holding 'C' key) but it booted from HD not install CD used previously.

All extensions named in Don's post seem to be present in Extension folder. But i am not familiar with 'mount' procedure. Could failure to 'mount' be cause - if so, how do i mount CD & FD so that icons appear on desktop ?

Thanx,
Bob

Hello Bob.

What System were you using before installing 9.2, please?

Did CD/FD stop appearing immediately - the first time you booted in 9.2, or what? Is there even any clicking and whirring when you insert a CD?

If you launch Apple System Profiler from the rainbow Apple Menu, while there is a CD in the drive, does the Devices and Volumes tab show that?

Hi Robbie: thanx for trying to help however problem has been fixed:

(1) the floppy disk (FD) and CD icons appear on desktop only if disk (media) is in drive: no media-no icon

(2) the CD icon did not appear since the cable connector at back of drive was loose. After adjusting properly, the icon now appears & i'm a happy Mac user again.

Best wishes,
Bob

Oops…

Enjoy!