23 Apr
2013
23 Apr
'13
11:40 p.m.
On Apr 23, 2013, at 7:22 PM, David Riley wrote:
Turns out it works if I turn sync mode off for the
CDROM. It
makes a certain amount of sense, I guess; it's a REALLY old
external CD drive that came with a Mac LC 475, which was one
of the '040 Macs right around the beginning of the CD era, so
it's certainly possible that it's just a finicky old drive.
There's nothing that leads me to believe it's anything more
than a 1x, though it is at least tray-loading, so it's quite
possible it just doesn't do sync transfers; at 150KB/s, why
bother?
Nope, nevermind, that didn't fix it. It got me to the
BACKUP prompt... once. Haven't managed to duplicate it.
I'm still running the A7A revision of the firmware, so I
should try with both A8 and the B2A/B3 revisions that are
available. I'm particularly curious to see if they fixed
the zero disks/zero tapes bug I found in the B revs. In
any case, it seems like there's some bug related to CD
drives here that's somewhat time-dependent.
- Dave