Subject: RE: Install on Performa 61xx
From: Jeff Simpson (jeffs@WPI.EDU)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 13:02:46 MST
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 sfalken@citlink.net wrote:
> > Ok, so you are the person to talk to, then. I have a Performa 6112CD, and
> > I've tried everything. For some reason, it can't read discs very well. I
> > don't know if maybe the cdrom just can't read the brand of cdr I have, but
> > I know the image is good. in MacOS, it will take probably 20 minutes to
> > read the disc, and then another 20 or so whenever I change directories. In
> > the MkLinux installer, it won't read the first file from the CD, and I am
> > not sure if it is because the disc is bad. Any help you can offer?
> >
> Get and external CD-ROM drive, the internal 300i Apple cd-rom doesn't like
> burns of any flavour, it sucks, but that's the way it works.
>
> --Shawn
>
The burner that I used to make the discs is actually an internal SCSI,
andI tried that one in the mac. It didn't work either. That doesn't much
sense, considering that it was the drive that MADE the disc.
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