Re: CDROM Burners

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Joe Kohn <joko@EnufWithTheSpam!@crl.com> wrote:

> Ahhh. Someone who is much more knowledgeable about the Mac offered me the
> following explanation in e-mail:
> 
>  >The Toast CD Reader extension only works with burners. It does not
>  >work with standard CD ROM drives, and will actually show as being
>  >crossed out when you boot if it does not find a burner.

Yep, I knew that.

>  >If a burner is connected, and the Toast CD Reader extension is
>  >installed, the entire Golden Orchard CD mounts on the desktop. If
>  >however you have a standard drive, only the HFS partition will mount.

I'm pretty sure that Toast CD Reader uses exactly the same driver as
Toast itself (via the "Mount" button), and Toast did _not_ mount the
ProDOS partitions on my System 6 Golden Master.  I'll try Toast CD
Reader with it, but I don't expect any different behaviour.

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