CD-ROM Driver 5.3.1 for Non-Apple TEAC CD Drive

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CD-ROM Driver 5.3.1 for Non-Apple TEAC CD Drive

I saw a web article http://chrislawson.net/writing/macdaniel/2k1130cl.shtml
and searched for the Apple CD-ROM Driver 5.3.1
After my original CD-ROM failed in a PowerMac 7600, I installed a PowerComputing CD-ROM I salvaged.
I have been able to get it to come up on the desktop and play music and read disks, but it doesn't show up on boot now. It whirs and blinks. When I open the CD audio player it says the Apple CD/DVD Driver did not load at startup, whether it it in the Ext folder or not. I booted using an Apple CD-ROM 600i and everything works just fine. Then I switched to the TEAC without shutting down and it read the disks and plyed music. I think there is something in the Apple CD/DVD Driver Ext that gets read at boot.
Anyway, it seems Driver 5.3.1 might work instead of CD/DVD which is in OS 9.2
Any suggestions on what to do or where to look? Thanks

PowerMac 7600-132 Mac OS 9.2.x

G4 1.6GHz, Mac OS 9.2.x, Both OS 10.3 and 9.2.2

Posted on Mar 18, 2006 7:06 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 19, 2006 7:29 PM in response to cdonpaul

Hi
I don't know a lot about this but since you don't seem to be getting any suggestions, I had a similar problems some years ago and it turned out to be the jumpers on the back of the disk drive were in to wrong locations so the computer would not load it.

Hope this helps
Mike

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Answer 2

Mar 19, 2006 9:35 PM in response to cdonpaul

Hi, cdonpaul -

There's an assortment of Apple CD/DVD Driver files available for downloading at the bottom of this page -
http://www.panix.com/~dac/macdgm/

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eww

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Mar 20, 2006 7:36 PM in response to cdonpaul

Hi, cdonpaul. PowerComputing had to use CD-ROM drives in its computers that did not contain Apple's ROM. The proprietary ROM in Apple's own drives made them bootable using the c-key-at-startup key combination, and also made them supportable by the Apple CD-ROM extension and the later Apple CD/DVD Driver extension. Without the Apple ROM, PowerComputing's drives had neither capability.

PCC worked around these two issues by relying on the Command-Option-Shift-Delete startup key combination for booting from a CD, and supplying a third-party driver for its optical drives. FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit was shipped with all PCC computers instead of Apple's drivers. But then the version of CDRTK that PCC shipped was incompatible with OS 8.5, so anyone who hadn't found a better alternative had to upgrade CDRTK at least once, maybe more, to upgrade their OS to or beyond OS 8.5.

I left CDRTK behind because I was lucky enough to get an APS CD-ROM driver (bundled with my first CD-RW drive) that supports my PCC PowerTower Pro's optical drive, at least through OS 9.1. The driver was discontinued many years ago by the now-defunct APS, and I doubt that anyone still cares whether the driver is freely distributed now. So if you like, I'll email you a copy and you can see whether it supports your drive.

There was also a patch that could be applied to one of Apple's CD-ROM driver versions to make it support a larger variety of third-party drives, but I've forgotten all the details myself.

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cdonpaul Author

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Mar 27, 2006 7:51 PM in response to Don Archibald

Thanks for the suggestions. I still have not gotten CD Driver 5.3.1 from MacOS 7.6 but was able to use the FWB CD Toolkit ext to get the drive to work. It will even boot a CD by holding down the C. The 24x is much better than the original 8x!

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cdonpaul Author

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Mar 27, 2006 7:58 PM in response to eww

Thanks for the insight. I was able to use FWB CDToolkit ext.
I looked into the patch but the links to the site in Europe were not complete. I'm glad I have my G4 and don't have to rely on the 7600. It will be good for someone though. 468MB and two drives and a PCI USB/FW make it pretty modern!

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Answer 6

Apr 3, 2006 5:02 AM in response to cdonpaul

The patch Eww was referring to can be found here.
http://www.resexcellence.com/mods_classic/12-21-1998.shtml

Use at your own risk! (and have an unaltered version of the driver, i.e. the original one, at a safe place or disk).

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