SCSI CD-ROM's w/o Apple firmware

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hewo Guest Status:	Apr 20, 2001, 05:53 AM
	Greetings, Why is it that non-Apple external scsi cdrom's will boot macs (68K & PPC) designed before the iMac and blue & white G3's and even desktop mount itself w/o fwb as long as a bootable cd diskette was preloaded before bootup from the internal scsi(eide) hard drive? additionally, has anyone had success overwriting internal cdrom firmware to"convert" the scsi cdrom drive into a mac cdrom drive?