[comp.sys.mac] CD ROM Weirdness

evans@mhgsp.att.com (52123-crandall) (06/21/89)

My new CD ROM player will not play normal (music) CDs anymore. For the
first few days I had it there were no problems with any music CD or
things like "Phil and Dave's Excellent CD." Today it decided to claim
that any normal CD is not a Mac disk and then proceeds to ask for either
an initialization (!?) or an eject. There are still no problems playing
music tracks from mixed disks like P&D's.

	I tried re-installing everything related to the CD ROM as well
	as removing most inits -- still no luck.

	The CD remote DA shows the player is reading the length and track
	data from the music CD before it is made unwelcome.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Steve Crandall
att!mhgsp!evans

phil@vaxphw.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (06/21/89)

In article <967@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, evans@mhgsp.att.com (52123-crandall) writes...
} 
}My new CD ROM player will not play normal (music) CDs anymore. For the
}first few days I had it there were no problems with any music CD or
}things like "Phil and Dave's Excellent CD." Today it decided to claim
}that any normal CD is not a Mac disk and then proceeds to ask for either
}an initialization (!?) or an eject. There are still no problems playing
}music tracks from mixed disks like P&D's.
} 
}	I tried re-installing everything related to the CD ROM as well
}	as removing most inits -- still no luck.
} 
}	The CD remote DA shows the player is reading the length and track
}	data from the music CD before it is made unwelcome.
} 
}Does anyone have any ideas?
} 
}Steve Crandall
}att!mhgsp!evans

Yes, your are missing the Audio and foriegn file access drivers that are
supposed to be in your system folder.....Without them, an audio disk does
not know how to 'mount' because the fmt is wrong....

All these wierd permuatations happened to me as I have a 2 meg Mac II.  So
I spent an evening pulling CD specific stuff out to see the ramifications..

Soon after, I got Virtual, so it looks like I have an 8 meg mac and the 
memory squeeze was over......
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