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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple CD-Rom driver
Message-ID: <43821@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 23:27:13 GMT
References: <82901@hobbit.UUCP>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:

>I am currently borrowing a CD Rom drive from my local dealer, as
>there appears to be a long delay in Apple production at the moment
>(it has been over 4 weeks so far from my order, and no word as to
>when the new drive will appear).  The drive I am borrowing is an early
>one (with fan, and thus probably with the dust problems).  However,
>I am having problems which I suspect might be something other than
>dust.  The drive only recognises certain CDs, and is not inconsistent
>about this; it always accepts some CDs and always rejects others.
>Amongst those it rejects are issues 1 and 3 of develop; it likes
>issue 2!

>So, I suspect there might be a hardware or software problem.  Does
>anyone know what the most up to date driver version numbers are?
>I am currently running System 6.0.5, CDRom driver version 2.0, dated
>August 29th 1989.  Any ideas?  I hope my real drive, when it arrives,
>is more reliable than this.

I just got my drive, and it works fine.  I'm using 3.0.2 of the CD/ROM
software.

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