#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC MAC OS#
#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC DRIVER#
#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC SOFTWARE#
#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC ZIP#

#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC DRIVER#

Normally, the purpose of the Apple CD-ROM or Apple CD/DVD Driver is to load driver code during normal hard drive startup to allow an attached optical drive to operate… even though there was no disc in it at startup. Turns out that the best (only?) place to get legal and usable optical disc boot code is from the optical disc driver that Apple supplies inside each System Folder (at least on systems equipped with an optical drive). The driver code to make a CD or DVD bootable has to come from somewhere, and needs to do so during the process of writing the disc. The Driver Comes From the Active System Folder used to Write the Disc

#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC ZIP#

This page restricts discussion to CDs and DVDs, though similar considerations apply to bootable MO disks, Zip disks, and other removables capable of Mac booting. In the case of removable discs, that code needs to be on each bootable disc. Macintosh computers need to load driver code off of the physical device which starts up (boots) the Mac.

#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC MAC OS#

Proper boot driver code for the applicable hardware and Mac OS The Driver on the CD Nevertheless, to date, i have worked 95% with the Vintage Mac OS, and i have almost never had CD booting problems that turned out to be due to a drive’s firmware.ĭrive firmware issues will not be covered here, especially since does such an excellent job… lightyears beyond what i could cover. This appears to be much less of a problem under OS X than under the Vintage Mac OS.

Insertion into a drive whose firmware allows bootability In Toast, choosing “Write Disc” creates a “closed” disc. Only when the disc is “closed” is all the necessary Table Of Contents information written to the disc.

It is required that the disc be “closed”: that is, finalized and unable to accept any further writing/sessions. It might be possible to make a bootable CD with more than one session, though i have never seen one. I have read that the process in OS X is more difficult, and requires extra steps and precautions.

#APPLE DVD PLAYER NOT ACCEPTING DISC SOFTWARE#

Drag the System Folder into the disc creation software (following its specific instructions).

Ideally, remove certain items that do not operate correctly from a locked volume.

Create or copy a working Mac OS System Folder.

In the days of the Vintage Mac OS, this was fairly easy: A properly installed and configured Mac OS, whose version is compatible with the Mac(s) to be booted I have not worked with OS X enough yet to know whether it allows other file structures, such as UFS, for bootable CDs/DVDs. Note that some older versions of Toast, such as Toast Titanium 5, can only create bootable CDs with the Mac OS Standard file structure. Vintage Mac OS systems need the CD file structure to be either Mac OS Standard (HFS) or Mac OS Extended (HFS+). Since the first topic is the longest, we’ll take these out of turn… 2.

Insertion into a drive whose firmware allows bootability.

A properly installed and configured Mac OS, whose version is compatible with the Mac(s) to be booted.Proper boot driver code for the applicable hardware and Mac OS.No other bootable CDs in my library did this, and this same data CD booted just fine when a different drive (CD-RW or CD-ROM) was installed in the G3!įor a CD (or DVD) to be bootable, it needs: One particular bootable CD in my library consistently froze the Mac very early in the startup process, just before the appearance of the Happy Mac (this is an OS 9 CD). The freezing turned out to have two components: Power supply issues (random freezes not covered here) and Bootable CD driver issues (repeatable, consistent freezes discussed herein). What got me started on all this testing and research was a freezing problem with a new Pioneer DVR-110D DVD±RW drive, installed in a Beige G3 DT (desktop, non-tower) Mac. I therefore cannot cover these subtopics at this time. I have yet to make any bootable OS X CD, nor a home-recorded DVD of any kind. This section deals almost exclusively with the Vintage Mac OS series, even though similar considerations likely apply to OS X. I use the term “Vintage” to mean “The Mac is directly booted from OS 9 or earlier”, to distinguish from Classic: running OS 9 or earlier in emulation, booted from OS X. Should i come across any useful OS X findings, i will add them or link to them from here. Having just spent the last several days (as of the originally written date above) immersed in troubleshooting related to the specific quirks of different Apple CD-ROM and Apple CD/DVD Driver versions’ interactions with specific hardware, i wanted to document my findings in case they might help others.Īt present, this page deals primarily with Vintage Mac OS (pre OS X… i.e. Apple CD-ROM & Apple CD/DVD Driver Reference Focusing on version differences and how they affect compatibility Why This Page?Ĭomputer software and hardware do not always work as expected.

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