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Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-06-26 06:31:46
Its a sad, sad world....
Speaking of which, I just realised that the auction has it listed has having a DVD-ROM drive, and a 40GB HDD? Um...what? That CD-ROM drive, to me at least anyway, looks like a stocky, and while its very possible that it may have a 40GB HDD, I doubt it.
Did DVD drives even exist when the 6300 was new? If it has 8.0 installed as would be evident from the boxed copy of 8.0 being sold with it, will 8.0 even recognize a DVD ROM?
Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-06-26 22:42:11
They did exist back in 1996, but only as prototypes, IIRC. I remember reading about them in MacAddict back in 1997. The very first consumer DVD gear started showing up in very, very late 1997, from what I remember.

For the record, OS 8.1 will recognise a DVD-ROM, but not 8.0, though it may, if you steal a copy of the Apple CD/DVD driver from 8.1. No guarantees though.
Posted by: coius on 2008-06-27 06:11:31
Hah! Good luck getting it to work!

I have a SCSI DVD-RAM/ROM and it won't even MOUNT under OS 9, let alone burn with it. OS X sees it, but Classic won't.

You gotta get a third-party Driver in order for it to work, and the only one I have found is a pay-for-ware
Posted by: Blessed Cheesemaker on 2008-07-05 06:50:24
Hah! Good luck getting it to work!I have a SCSI DVD-RAM/ROM and it won't even MOUNT under OS 9, let alone burn with it. OS X sees it, but Classic won't.

You gotta get a third-party Driver in order for it to work, and the only one I have found is a pay-for-ware
Hmmm...what kind of DVD-RAM is it? I have a Panasonic (well, Matsushita) LF-D101 SCSI that works in OS 8.6 and up. I have a LF-D111 IDE that works in OS 9 and up.

DVD Tune-up will write to DVD-RAM in Classic, and I have Toast 5 that will as well, but I haven't used it.

I have to say, I have just started using DVD-RAM, and I love it! I am way too disorganized to save everything up to burn all at 4Gig once, and I have found that while I can write multiple sessions, not every drive can recognize more than one session.
Posted by: sambapati87 on 2008-07-26 08:11:52
Well, this seals the deal for me.

*Gravis Black Hawk Digital Joystick Controller*

100% PURE DIGITAL FIREPOWER
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