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From: bhall@pbs.org (Dark Star)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How can you get the Apple "CD Player" DA to work??
Message-ID: <9992.26dc1a65@pbs.org>
Date: 29 Aug 90 23:41:24 GMT
References: <1990Aug29.203541.517@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Aug29.203541.517@midway.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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> 
> How does one get the CD player DA (the one which allows you to play music CD's
> on your Mac) from Apple to work?
> 
> Specifically: we've got a CD-ROM player set up with speakers and the DA running
> and we're all ready to go.  But when a disk is inserted, it's popped back out
> with the message "this is not a Macintosh disk".  No duh.
> 

Did you use the installer from the Apple "CD Setup" disk?

It copies another INIT called "Foreign File Access" and the foreign format
modules for High Sierra, ISO 9660, and *audio*.  

Once it is there, then the CD will show up on the desktop and you can play
it with the "CD Remote" DA.

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