UltraDock 16sc - making CD drive work?

[Daniel May]

Hi Eric,

Did you install the UltraDock Control Panel? You can get it at

<http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/FTP/newertech/ethertech.hqx>

Greetings

Daniel

Eric L. Strobel schrieb am 28.02.2003 2:59 Uhr:

> somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 2/27/03 4:47 PM, the entity known
> as Mike Rohde transmitted the following from mike at rohdesign.com:
> 
>>> OK, I've got my 280c docked to the Ultradock and I just decided to hookup an
>>> external CD drive to run my Norton CD.  But it refuses to recognize the CD
>>> drive.  As in none of my SCSI utilities even sees it as present on the
>>> chain!  And yes, I've done some extension checking (the drive isn't seen,
>>> even when extensions are off).  Also, the same drive setup works just fine
>>> on my MiniDock.  I've checked termination and even swapped out cables.  So
>>> I'm wondering if there was some trick to getting the UltraDock to recognize
>>> a CD drive.  TIA.
>> 
>> I wonder if you must have special drivers? I have a small CD reader here for
>> the Duo that required I use FWB CD Toolkit to boot.
>> 
>> I do know it requires a driver to get Ethernet working properly, so I just
>> made a guess that maybe there's a driver needed for SCSI too.
>> 
>> Could be way off though. ;-)
> 
> Thanks.  I tried CD SpeedTools driver.  I'll probably try a few others.  But
> it's suspicious that the CD drive completely doesn't even show up as being
> on the SCSI chain.
> 
> - Eric.