Hello all,

I don't know so much about Macintoshes, so I'm hoping someone out there can
help...

I have a G3 mac running OS9 with a CD player, all working well. I also have
a separate CD writer, a Yamaha CRW8424S which I want to use to burn CDs
(This has been used on a mac before). It's a SCSI machine, and is recognized
by the SCSI bus software, but that's a far as I've got. I've played around
with the extentions, on and off, but no luck so far. Do I need a special
driver? I can't find one on the net, although I have updated the firmware.
And do I need burning software? I read somewhere that you can burn CDs from
the Finder, but I've no idea how.

Can anyone help..... Please!!!!!!

all the best,

Laurence Hall
Amsterdam

On 2007-02-21 12:21:16 -0500, "Laurence Hall" <hallhart@xs4all.nl> said:

> Hello all,
>
> I don't know so much about Macintoshes, so I'm hoping someone out there can
> help...
>
> I have a G3 mac running OS9 with a CD player, all working well. I also have
> a separate CD writer, a Yamaha CRW8424S which I want to use to burn CDs
> (This has been used on a mac before). It's a SCSI machine, and is recognized
> by the SCSI bus software, but that's a far as I've got. I've played around
> with the extentions, on and off, but no luck so far. Do I need a special
> driver? I can't find one on the net, although I have updated the firmware.
> And do I need burning software? I read somewhere that you can burn CDs from
> the Finder, but I've no idea how.
>
> Can anyone help..... Please!!!!!!
>
> all the best,
>
> Laurence Hall
> Amsterdam

It's been over a year and a half since I've moved to OS X, but I seem
to remember that there were some issues of the burning features in OS
9. There are extensions that need to be activated to allow it, and the
CD-R needs to be recognized by the system as a writable device. The
Burn command will be in the Special drop down menu, so if you put in a
blank CD you should be able to copy files to the CD icon and then click
on the Burn - or Cntl Click (right click) and see the option.

If all that doesn't work, then you might have to use a burning software
like Toast - I think version 5 was the last one that worked with OS 9.

--
John Gentile MS, M(ASCP)
Laboratory Information Mgr.
VA Medical Center
Providence, RI
yjgent@cox.net

On Feb 21, 2007, Laurence Hall wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I don't know so much about Macintoshes, so I'm hoping someone out there can
> help...

Macintosh is the plural form.

> I have a G3 mac running OS9 with a CD player, all working well. I also have
> a separate CD writer, a Yamaha CRW8424S which I want to use to burn CDs
> (This has been used on a mac before). It's a SCSI machine, and is recognized
> by the SCSI bus software, but that's a far as I've got. I've played around
> with the extentions, on and off, but no luck so far. Do I need a special
> driver? I can't find one on the net, although I have updated the firmware.
> And do I need burning software? I read somewhere that you can burn CDs from
> the Finder, but I've no idea how.
>
>

One thing you never mentioned is whether you can read from the CD drive.
Assuming that it works,
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58804> may be of help
and there is
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19697>

Thanks to both Tim and John for helping. I'll try to get onto it this
weekend. The drive is indeed not readable; right now I can't read from the
burn drive, although once I did get a
reaction when putting a cd in the drive, and then the mac crashed. Oh well.
Maybe the drive doesn't work indeed, once I've read the articles I should
know more about what I'm doing wrong. Thanks again both.

regards,

Laurence




"Tim Murray" <no-spam@thankyou.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C20254F200093CDBF0203648@newsgroups.be llsouth.net...
> On Feb 21, 2007, Laurence Hall wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I don't know so much about Macintoshes, so I'm hoping someone out there
can
> > help...
>
> Macintosh is the plural form.
>
> > I have a G3 mac running OS9 with a CD player, all working well. I also
have
> > a separate CD writer, a Yamaha CRW8424S which I want to use to burn CDs
> > (This has been used on a mac before). It's a SCSI machine, and is
recognized
> > by the SCSI bus software, but that's a far as I've got. I've played
around
> > with the extentions, on and off, but no luck so far. Do I need a special
> > driver? I can't find one on the net, although I have updated the
firmware.
> > And do I need burning software? I read somewhere that you can burn CDs
from
> > the Finder, but I've no idea how.
> >
> >
>
> One thing you never mentioned is whether you can read from the CD drive.
> Assuming that it works,
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58804> may be of help
> and there is
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19697>
>

In article <2007022117530316807-yjgent@coxnet>,
John Gentile <yjgent@cox.net> wrote:

<snip>
>
> If all that doesn't work, then you might have to use a burning software
> like Toast - I think version 5 was the last one that worked with OS 9.

I'm running Toast Lite v5.2.2 (which came bundled with a DVD burner) on
my Classic system.

--
Odysseus