^ Non of that make sense.

Its system 7 - what drivers? I suppose one could consider a system enabler a driver, but the IIci would not need one with 7.

Again, its 7 on the boot end. The CD if read at all would at very least try to boot. If not compatible, it would say so when booting. The problem is the IIci is not trying to boot at all from the CD.

The CD is a bootable since it works on the 8600.

Anyway, how were the CDs burned? I had a thought about HFS.