Re: GOlden Orchard problems on a Mac

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Brian Gillespie <jaunt5ft@apk.net> wrote:
:>In article <6wewwe1w165w@ospnet.nshore.org>, chessie@ospnet.nshore.org
: (Adam Barr) wrote:

:>I do not have a CD-ROM or SCSI card on my GS but thought I could use the 
:>cd on my mac and transfer files. Well in the instructions is says that 
:>you can only mount the CD right on a mac with FWB CD-ROM Toolkit. Well I 
:>have version 3 of that program and every time I put the CD in the drive 
:>the computer hangs. I even let the computer sit 2 hours to see waht would 
:>happen and nothing did. I also enabled CD-ROM Toolkit to see ProDOS CDs 
:>and ISO:9660. Does anyone know what the problem is? Please email if you 
:>can. Thanks!-Adam

:    I have tried ScsiProbe 4.3, nothing. I have tried Silverlining, again
: no luck. I will look and see what version of CDrom Toolkit worked for me.

I don't get why the instructions say that it takes CD ROM Toolkit. I'd expect
very few Mac users to have it since it's only necessary if you have a non
Apple CD drive. How many Mac owners do you suppose there are who didn't get
an internal CD with their box or did not buy an Apple external? What is more,
it's said that the CD driver included with OS 7.6 can work with any CD drive.
I have the 6.0 golden master CD on hand and only the HFS partition mounts
on my box with 7.6.1 and internal CD. The ProDOS volumes don't show up. Is 
that why? If so it's very unusual for third parties to support anything Apple
II specific.

Regardless, since Shreve Systems has CD150s (plug 'n play with IIgses) on 
sale for $39, it makes more sense to get a CD drive to use CDs. I have a 150
on my IIgs and it works great.
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