Apple's cdrom driver & non Apple CDROM drives

[Alexandre MARTINS MELO]

Derek Homeier wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:00:22, Alexandre MARTINS MELO <martins1 at col.bsf.alcatel.fr>
> wrote:
>
> somewhat off topic, really, but look at the recent (or, meanwhile, perhaps
> 'previous') news section at macintouch for two links describing a patch to
> the apple cdrom and dvd drivers to make them work with non-apple drives.
> One is at c't magazine:
>         http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/26/188/
> the other one improves a bit on this in that it supports both apple and non-
> apple drives with the same driver, but I don't have it at hand right now.
>
> Hope this helps,
>                                                         Derek

The hack that supports both Apple and non-Apple drives is explained at :
                http://www.ResExcellence.com/12-21-98.shtml

I tried it yesterday and it works fine, even with a french version of MacOS 8.5.

Thanks,

Alex.



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