How to add a CD-rom drive to a Macintosh Classic? — #14

Post #14 by bbraun

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 - 18:14
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/how-to-add-a-cd-rom-drive-to-a-macintosh-classic.24577/

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With non-Apple-branded drives (Yamaha 6416 & 8424) I wasn't that lucky The bootable CDs can't get the driver loaded -- I think it does load; but upon detecting a foreign drive, refuses to work. Those drives are suported by Toast CD Reader extension 4.0.2, but at a whooping 137K I don't think is the best thing to put on a System 7 floppy. Haven't tried to toast a bootable CD with that extension as the CD-ROM driver in that disk, I think it could work.

I'm not sure if it's a foreign drive problem or a 512 byte sector problem. Do you happen to have a CD-ROM drive that's capable of booting an older Sun? This is an incomplete list of known good drives for Suns. Alternatively, if this is relevant to your Yamaha 6416, it indicates there's a jumper setting to enable 512 byte sectors on that drive. Perhaps setting that jumper might work?