Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.apps:1408 comp.sys.mac.misc:2924 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!argosy!freeman From: freeman@argosy.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: How can you get the Apple "CD Player" DA to work?? Message-ID: <662@argosy.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 90 20:46:21 GMT References: <1990Aug29.203541.517@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@argosy.UUCP Reply-To: freeman@cleo.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) Organization: MasPar Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 25 In article <1990Aug29.203541.517@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes: >-------- > >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. I had symptoms of that sort while integrating an Apple CD-ROM with my (old) Mac II a few weeks ago; I could get an audio CD to mount but I got a "not a Macintosh disk" message for data CD-ROMs. It turns out that the fix was to substitute a *longer* SCSI cable than the minimum necessary for putting the CD-ROM beside the Mac. Specifically, it did not work with a two-foot SCSI cable but worked fine with five feet. I mentioned the problem on the net, and one person replied that a longer SCSI cable had made it work. That's what prompted me to try one. Good luck. -- Jay Freeman