Hiya folks,

I just bought Hewlett-Packard's 8200 USB model cd-rw drive for use with my desktop PC and my Powerbook G3 (Firewire). HP only included PC drivers on their CDs, and I can't find any mac info for the drive on their site (or much of anywhere). Adaptec's site lists it as Toast supported, so does anyone know where I might find drivers for it or something similar or generic to try? Are there any additional extensions I need? Toast doesn't recognize the drive (doesn't seem to scan anything but IDE bus) and the automatic driver search when I plug the drive in doesn't find anything either. Thanks in advance!

Samwise97

[Cipher13]

Make sure you have the latest version of Toast Deluxe. OEM may not support it, and support may have only been added recently.

Cipher13

I started with Toast 4.0 Deluxe, and have since upgraded through 4.1, 4.1.1 and even the bogus 4.2 floating around Hotline with no luck. It seems like I need some kind of USB driver... the drive won't even mount a disk to read, and the Toast Reader extension is active...

[Shaman]

I had the same problem with Mitsumi CDRW !
The problem was in incompatibility with the scanner drivers ! (Vistascan - Umax) i've disabled them and all worked best :-)

Hmm, I'm pretty new to the mac world and don't have many drivers for other peripherals installed, though some things have acted funny (tried using a Western Digital external hard drive for video editing, made sure all Firewire extensions etc. were up to date and still no luck. Probably some sort of conflict, but seeing as a second LaCie external we had plugged in and worked immediately, we just used it). I enlisted the help of some more informed mac folks with the CD-RW and still had no luck, so I've since returned the drive and ordered the popular APS USB drive, which should be here Monday ; )