Scott Alfter wrote:
I've not had much luck getting any CD-ROM drive to work with my RamFAST (rev. C, newest firmware), but I have a Panasonic 4x drive that works fine with an Apple DMA SCSI card. You can even boot off of it if the first partition on the CD is a bootable ProDOS partition. (There are no CD-burning programs that will create a CD with ProDOS filesystems on them, but I wrote a program a while back that generates a partition table and concatenates some ProDOS and/or HFS filesystems to create a CD image that you can burn with Nero, cdrecord, or whatever. I have the System 6.0.1 install floppies on a CD-R now...you can boot off of it to nuke & install ona hard drive without swapping floppies.)
Another way to do ProDOS CDs is by blind SCSI copy. What I did was to set up a Hard drive with the data and partitions I want. Then I'd hook it up to the computer with the CD burner (in my case a Mac). Leaving the hard drive off I'd boot the Mac. After the Mac had booted I'd turn on the hard drive. The reason I did this was so the hard drive wouldn't mount and so the MacOS wouldn't change or add anything to the HD. Then with Toast I'd use Device Copy to choose the unmounted hard drive and burn it to a CD. That'd give me an exact copy of the HD and if it was bootable, then the CD was bootable. Also this way the computer doesn't need to be able to understand or deal with ProDOS. A great way to back up a multi-partition ProDOS hard drive. Wayne