Re: Urgent Help Needed with //GS CD-ROM Issues..

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

Try hooking your IIgs cdrom drive upto a Windows, Mac or Linux box and
try to read your IIgs 9660 CDs ('coasters') from this platform.  The
goal is to rule out the GS/OS FST(s).

Marvin Miller wrote:
> 
> Hi;
> 
> Ya, there's no problems with software/hardware issues as far as the O/S and
> the CD-Rom goes. It will read other people's 'factory' disks with no
> problems whether they are 9660 or HFS.
> 
> As far as my 'burned' disks go, they've been written in every possible
> manner including the strictest adherance to the original ISO 9660 standard.
> The conclusion seems to be that the old CD-SC may not like any type of
> burned CD-Rom.... the jury's still out but it's getting narrwoed down to the
> point that I'll risk installing Linux (an O/S I know nothing about) in an
> effort to get a HFS SCSI drive loaded with the data.
> 
> I'm getting frustrated with my //gs!!
> 
> Best;
> Marvin
> 
> "Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
> 3A89CA2B.4EC71F7C@swbell.net">news:3A89CA2B.4EC71F7C@swbell.net...
> > Marvin Miller writes ...
> > >
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > I just got my CD-SC today and connected it to my //gs. All is well and
> it
> > > reads a data disk I had from some old game.
> > >
> > > I burned a CD-ROM using ISO-9660 onto a non-re-writeable disk (the drive
> > > would not accept re-writeables). The disk goes in fine and the system
> > > accepts the disk BUT it does not show an icon for it and I can see no
> way of
> > > accessing it.
> > >
> >  ....
> >
> >      Is your HS FST (HS.FST) installed? Did you create one named volume?
> If you
> > created more than one, there could be problems under GS/OS.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rubywand

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