Re: CD ROM drive on //gs

["Richard A. Cini" <rcini@msn.com>]

Ed:

    Thanks for the comments. I'm familiar with general SCSI issues as I use
SCSI on all of my PeeCee computers. The gs has a CMS SCSI card. A 20mb SCSI
hard drive salvaged from a MacSE is the hard drive at ID=6. The system
presently works well, booting OS 6.0.1. There is 1mb of RAM. All of the
proper drivers are present in the System folder.

    The CD is now at ID=0. Previously I had the CD at ID6 and the hard drive
at ID0. The IDs were never the same. Both are contained in external drive
cases, and the CD (at the end of the chain) is terminated with an active
terminator.

    I guess that I'm under the misguided impression that the CD should
show-up on the Finder desktop whether or not it has a CD in it. This is
probably because of my substantial experience with the PeeCee platform.

    Based on comments by others, it appears that this is not the case. Maybe
that's the problem. I think that I have to burn a test CD and see if it
works.

Thanks again for the help.

    .

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eeastman@NOSPAMappple2.com wrote in message
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>Do you have a SCSI card? The GS out of the box does not support SCSI.
Which
>SCSI card do youhave?  This 'minor' detail will help us determine why it
doesn't
>work.  I should probably ask about SCSI termination on your SCSI bus too.
List
>all the devices you have on your SCSI bus.
>
>Thankx,
>Ed
>
>"Richard A. Cini" wrote:
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>> Hello, all:
>>
>>     Last week, I ordered the DCS018S Apple SCSI CD-ROM drive from Alltech
>> which I intend on using with an Apple 2gs. It's a Matsushita Apple 600i
OEM
>> drive.
>>
>>     I've been told previously that a CD should work out of the box with
the
>> gs, but I'm not sure if mine does or not. I have System 6.0.1 running on
a
>> ROM3 gs. The CD is at ID=6. The System folder has the Apple CD driver in
it,
>> but the CD control applet complains that it can't locate an Apple CD
drive.
>>
>>     Any clues?? What should I check for?
>>
>> Rich
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>> [   ClubWin!/CW1
>> [   MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
>> [   Collector of "classic" computers
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