ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (Nick Crossley) (08/09/90)
I am currently borrowing a CD Rom drive from my local dealer, as there appears to be a long delay in Apple production at the moment (it has been over 4 weeks so far from my order, and no word as to when the new drive will appear). The drive I am borrowing is an early one (with fan, and thus probably with the dust problems). However, I am having problems which I suspect might be something other than dust. The drive only recognises certain CDs, and is not inconsistent about this; it always accepts some CDs and always rejects others. Amongst those it rejects are issues 1 and 3 of develop; it likes issue 2! So, I suspect there might be a hardware or software problem. Does anyone know what the most up to date driver version numbers are? I am currently running System 6.0.5, CDRom driver version 2.0, dated August 29th 1989. Any ideas? I hope my real drive, when it arrives, is more reliable than this. -- <<< standard disclaimers >>> Nick Crossley, ICL NA, 9801 Muirlands, Irvine, CA 92718-2521, USA 714-458-7282 uunet!ccicpg!ndjc / ndjc@ccicpg.UUCP
ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (Nick Crossley) (08/14/90)
In article <82901@hobbit.UUCP> I wrote about problems I was having
with an old Apple CD-ROM borrowed from a dealer, while waiting for
delivery of my own drive. Of course, I should have posted a week
or two earlier; about 2 hours after posting, the dealer phoned to
say everything had arrived. When I took my new drive home and set
it up, it worked with the CDs which had failed earlier, even without
installing the new software.
So, both the drive and software were out of date, but it was the
hardware which had caused the problems, not the software as I had
suspected. I have now installed the new driver software as well,
of course, and I have not had any problems reading any digital or
audio CDs since.
I received some email replies saying my driver was out of date,
and letting me know the up to date one was available by FTP from
apple.com. This is of limited use to those such as myself without
FTP access; perhaps Apple could consider adding more of these files
to the 'Developer Essentials' stuff on the develop CD-ROMs?
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