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| Click here to select a new forum. | | How to set up a PowerCD? | Posted by: DrTom on 2008-01-08 13:42:59
Hi guys, I have a PowerCD that I would like to connect to my SE FDHD or my Classic. Having never ever used SCSI external stuff, could anyone please give me directions?
I'll hopefully be running 7.5.5 although I am on 7.2 or 7.3 right now but I can't remember.
Sorry for such a silly question!
Tom
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2008-01-08 13:50:24
you need this
Apple PowerCD Update 1.0.1
http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/0,1000000376,39045803s,00.htm?dl=1
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-01-08 18:04:39
First, make sure you have the 'back' for the PowerCD. In spite of its slim portable appearance, it requires the big 'wedge' back in order to work as a SCSI device. (Oddly, you need the wedge for battery power or as a SCSI device, but you can run it without the wedge for audio/video if you plug it into wall power.)
Assuming you have the wedge, you then make sure that the SCSI ID (set on the wedge,) is not the same as any other SCSI devices (if all you have is a single internal hard drive, then the only two already taken are likely 0 and 7 for the hard drive and computer, respectively.) Then you plug in the SCSI device cable (the big 'Centronics' plug on the PowerCD, the smaller DB-25 on the computer.) Then you turn on the PowerCD first, then the computer. As long as the computer is on, do *NOT* turn off the PowerCD. It should always be on before the computer, and stay on until after the computer is off.
Once you have the hardware parts down, you need the software slomacuser links to. (Even in later MacOSes, the PowerCD needs its own driver.)
Also, the PowerCD is a 1x CD-ROM drive. That's right, not even 2x. A measly 150 KB/s. Lots of early CD-ROM games required at least a 2x CD-ROM drive, and may not play on the PowerCD. But if you're plugging it into an SE or Classic, you're probably not going to be playing any CD-ROM games.
| Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-01-08 21:45:16
(Oddly, you need the wedge for battery power or as a SCSI device, but you can run it without the wedge for audio/video if you plug it into wall power.) Erm, how? On my PowerCD, the AC power connector is on the "wedge". The only connectors on the actual PowerCD unit itself from memory are headphones, line out, video out (proprietary connector) and the interconnect port for the wedge.
| Posted by: DrTom on 2008-01-09 11:15:12
Excellent, many thanks!
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-01-09 17:03:54
(Oddly, you need the wedge for battery power or as a SCSI device, but you can run it without the wedge for audio/video if you plug it into wall power.) Erm, how? On my PowerCD, the AC power connector is on the "wedge". The only connectors on the actual PowerCD unit itself from memory are headphones, line out, video out (proprietary connector) and the interconnect port for the wedge.
D-oh! Whoops! You're right! I was confusing the custom AV connector with the power plug. (I had to go physically look at mine to be sure, though. I don't have either cable, so mine runs solely on batteries. Man does it eat through rechargeable alkaline batteries quickly.)
| Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-01-09 23:24:32
You have a PowerBook 1xx, right? You don't need the special PowerCD adaptor, it will run just fine on any PowerBook 1xx (except 190/190cs) power adaptor, I use mine with an M5652 and an M540X (IIRC) myself.
| Posted by: gobabushka on 2008-01-10 06:44:56
i shoud have bought one when i had the chance! 🙁
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2008-01-10 13:54:00
here is another chance
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-PowerCD-extremely-rare_W0QQitemZ110212686052QQihZ001QQcategoryZ11149QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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