[muglo] Re: CR Drive or other woes!

on 6/2/02 16:30, Paul Thomas at paulthomas@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Some of you may remember my unsolved problem of Scanner and Zip drive.
> 
> Now my CD Drive has packed it in by giving a message "Apple CD Drive is not
> responding".  It seems to me that there are a number of possibilities:
> 
> 1  Could it be that the CD Drive has died?  If so is there anyway of
> checking this and if so, can one get a replacement (its a Performa 5260)?
> And then can one install it?
> 
> 2  Could it be a SCSI problem?  If so can anything be done about that?
> (Incidently I tried it with the Zip Drive disconnected in case that was the
> problem and this made no difference) (the Zip Drive works OK)
> 
> 3  Could it be a corruption of the Op Sys?  This can't be reinstalled as it
> is on a CD which can't be used!!!
> 
> 4  Any other suggestions??

If your computer says "Apple CD drive is not responding" it means that the
computer knows it's there but can't do anything with it. Chances are it's
#3ish and your Apple CD driver has been corrupted or misplaced.

You should be able to boot off the CD-ROM by holding down C at startup (does
that work on the 5260?). Open tray, place CD-ROM in tray (don't close tray),
restart Finder, hold down C key. If that works you'll have to dig through
the CD and find the Apple CD driver (can't remember name but it starts with
Apple CD...) and copy it to the System Folder.

Make sure you have no devices plugged into the SCSI chain when you're
trouble-shooting!!!

Another possibility is that it was disabled in the Extensions Manager --
check EM.

If these tricks don't work you may have a real CD-ROM problem. Yes, CD-ROMs
can be replaced quite easily (Terry from Terry's Tech Service would be the
guy for that... 519-294-0648). Unfortunately it's a SCSI so it's VERY
expensive (brand new IDE CD-RWs can be had for ~$90 and I bet an 8x used
SCSI internal CD-ROM would be ~$100) but can be had (though, a replacement
computer might be cheaper).



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