jacobson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (R J Jacobson) (04/20/91)
Thanks to all those who have responded to my requests on the compatability of
the CD Tech Porta Drive, its driver CD Tech Driver 1.31 with system 7. I
appreciate the effort. But I am confused. I have gotten 3 persons contacting
me via email and one via a response in this newsgroup. 2 say that you can
boot with the drive and driver in system 7 (one of which says you cannot
use the driver in the control panel-it dies at that point but will still
mount the CD Tech Portadrive). 2 say that the Driver will not work at all
and the CD Tech Portadrive will not mount at all with that driver. One of
these uses another SCSI mounter to mount the drive instead.
So its 50/50 in terms of whether the driver works or not. Can anyone clarify
this for me. I may when I get system 7 for my own system (the CD ROM is on
test it on the system withe the CD ROM drive and the BBS and just bury the
old system 6.05 in a folder to restore if the system 7 does not work.
This question has gotten interesting to me since the experiences are mixed.
I wonder if it depends on the version of the driver. One person even indicated
the problem had to do with the fact that the CD Tech Driver 1.31 was not a
32 bit clean application. So maybe if that feature is turned off in the
Memory control Cdeve of System 7 the driver will work. If so that would be
fine since the CD Tech Porta Drive is on a SE/30 running the BBS and thus does
not have 32 bit clean roms anyway.
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