Unfortunately, the edit doesn't work with every combination of CD drive and computer, but of the thousands that have performed the edit, I have received only a few emails of failure. Your Apple supplied CD ROM driver will now mount most SCSI CD ROM Drives!
When you're finished, replace the original driver with the new one and restart your computer. The graphic above, and the table below show the second change to be made to the driver. Find the original value at the appropriate row and offset, and change it to the new value.īelow is a table for first change in the various AppleCD drivers. The screenshot above for the Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.0.1 is representative of the changes to be made in all the drivers.
Now from a Finder window click on the Go menu and select Network. Now your drive should be seen by your MacBook Air. For safety’s sake check the box that says Ask me before allowing others to use my CD drive. Open ID# 32 with a double-click. If you get an error about the resource size, open it using the menu item "Open using Hex Editor" The list on the left has one item called DVD or CD Sharing. Open a copy of the CD Driver in ResEdit and find the DRVR resources. Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.3.5 (no change since 1.3.1).The screeshots below are for the Apple CD/DVD Driver 1.0.1. Thanks to Anthony Saxton, the author of ClipDragon, it's now posible to have a single modified driver work with both Apple CD drives, and any other SCSI CD ROM drive. One drawback was the fact you had to keep two copies of the CD extension active: the original for Apple's drives, and a modified version for non-Apple drives.
Several readers emailed to point out an excellenct article in c't Magazine that showed how to use ResEdit on Apple CD/DVD drivers to make them recognize any CD ROM drives - not just Apple's. The text below is a verbatim copy of the same hosted on the wayback machine. This article was hosted on the excellent ResExcellence site.