I just installed Jaguar on my B&W G3. Toast 6 won't recognise the
external SCSI CD burner.
It won't recognise the burner using Classic mode and Toast 5, either.
Boot into OS9 and it works fine.

How do I get Toast 6/Jaguar to recognise the SCSI CD?

POG

Pogdaddle <paddlin@puddle.net> wrote:

> I just installed Jaguar on my B&W G3. Toast 6 won't recognise the
> external SCSI CD burner.
> It won't recognise the burner using Classic mode and Toast 5, either.
> Boot into OS9 and it works fine.
>
> How do I get Toast 6/Jaguar to recognise the SCSI CD?
>
> POG

One possibility - OSX in general, doesn't seem too happy with SCSI - in
particular, it doesn't seem to be able to distiguish between separate
SCSI buses. I have 3 SCSI buses but fortunately I have a fairly limited
number of SCSI devices and each device has a unique SCSI ID. I think
that if you give SCSI devices on different buses the same SCSI ID, OSX
throws a wobbly. Unlike pre-OSX systems which would quite happily handle
SCSI devices with the same ID but on different buses.

A second possibility - a big minuses of OSX, as I understand it, is that
rather than using drivers supplied by 3rd parties for their hardware.
Apple builds the drivers into OSX. This makes adding 3rd party devices a
lot easier for the less computer literate but it does mean that if you
have 3rd party hardware that doesn't have an appropriate driver built
into OSX, it won't work and there doesn't seem to be anything you can do
about it.

I recently bought a LaCie Firwire CD/DVD burner, based on the new
Pioneer 106 engine. OS 10.2.3 didn't properly recognise it and while it
would play audio CDs and open data CDs, I couldn't burn anything. It
took me a long time to realise that the problem was that 10.2.3 didn't
have the correct drivers. As soon as I upgraded to OS 10.2.8, I could
burn without difficulties.

So, if you have a fairly old SCSI CD burner, it might be that your
version of OSX simply doesn't have the correct driver built in and
getting it to work under OSX could be a major problem.

And if you have/get new 3rd party hardware which incorporates
significant and recent design changes, it is possible that you might
have to wait until Apple issue an OS update that contains the correct
driver.

Unless I have misunderstood OSX, this seems a major failing.
--
Larry Stoter

Larry-

Thanks for the reply. I'll look around the web and the Apple site for
some sort of a driver. Will also disconnect other devices and terminate
the burner, to see if the SCSI ID is the problem.

Regards from POG





In article <1g3raaq.hj39mfxf90owN%larry@cymru.freewire.co.uk> , Larry
Stoter <larry@cymru.freewire.co.uk> wrote:


>
> One possibility - OSX in general, doesn't seem too happy with SCSI - <snip>
>
> Unless I have misunderstood OSX, this seems a major failing.