[l008com]

My PowerMac 7500 came with an internal SCSI-2 CDROM drive, a 600i. I recendly bought an internal CD-R, also SCSI-2, a Philips CDD2000. I'm fairly capable when it comes to electronics, so i was able to open my mac, unplug and slide out the old drive and slide the new one in. The 4-conductor power plug plugged right in. The 50-conductor SCSI plug also plugged right on. BUT... SCSI CDROM drives also have a 4-conductor audio plug, the one on my mac is totally different from teh one my CD-R takes. Questions....
1) Would this affect teh recording of CD's?
(I've already lost 2 CD-R's trying to backup PSX games then i remember i never plugged in teh audio and maybe that's the problem)
2) More importantly, does anyone know where i can get one of the right sized plugs so i can solder it in place of the one i have so i can finally plug in the audio on my drive.

[Misha]

Not having the audio cable plugged in doesn't do anything when it comes to burning CDs... it just means that you can't listen to audio CDs through your CD-R. I have the same problem with my internal CD-R... basically the Mac's audio connector is totally different from PC's, and that drive is made for PCs, per se. I tried splicing the Mac cable with the PC cable that came with the drive and while it may have worked, I ended up ruining one of the cables in my haste and just decided to not plug it in.

The only problem you'll encounter is recording directly from Audio CDs. That is, if you stick an audio CD in your CD-ROM drive and a blank CD in the CD-R, you can't copy it. You need to first extract the audio CD onto your HD.

[drewman]

Like Misha said, if your drive came with a cable, you can hack it on to the end of the cable from the Mac and it will work fine. It's just an audio connection and hooking it up wrong shouldn't hurt anything - it just won't sound very good. If your drive didn't come with a cable, go to your local computer store and buy one that fits your drive.

No implied warranties, your mileage may vary, please don't sue me....

Making backups of PSX games is tricky. Make sure that you burn at a very low speed (I have used as low as 1x) to minimize errors. Also, the newest playstations won't work with any discs except the black bottomed ones.

drewman

[This message has been edited by drewman (edited 01-23-2000).]