If you add CD-ROM drives after having installed CDT, you must open the CD-ROM ToolKit Control Panel and check the boxes next to the drive ID of the new CD-ROM drive, because you need to tell CD-ROM ToolKit to support those devices.
Likewise, if you change the SCSI ID of your CD-ROM drive after having installed CDT, you must open the CD-ROM ToolKit Control Panel and check the boxes next to the desired new SCSI ID.
CD-ROM ToolKit will display a question mark icon upon startup if it has not been configured to support any CD-ROM drives.
Photo CD
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Users should install QuickTime 1.5, or newer, to maximize usefulness of Photo CD on the Macintosh. QuickTime 1.5, or newer, is required for System 6 users or else PhotoCD disks will be ejected and never mounted when using "Apple Photo Access". Keep in mind that QuickTime does not operate on "68000" computers such as the Macintosh Plus, SE, Classic, Portable, and Powerbook100.
Apple Photo Access
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"Apple Photo Access" is a system extension file from Apple that will allow the Finder to present nice looking icons and folder structure on Photo CD media. Macintosh systems without that extension can use Photo CD, but its absence makes it impossible to use the Finder to browse photographs and select photos to load. This means you will need at least some type of Photo CD compatible graphics program to view Photo CD pictures. This file is only available directly from Apple or by downloading from information systems such as AppleLink. Users of Photo CD should obtain this file to make Photo CD access more Mac-like. You can download this software from AppleLink from the following path:
Software Sampler
Apple SW Update
Macintosh
Peripherals
Macintosh CD-ROM Setup 4.02
It can also be found on the QuickTime 1.5 CD, the March 1993 developer CD, and at Apple's INTERNET address "ftp.apple.com". As of May 1993, only version 3.2 of Apple's CD-ROM driver disk (lacking "Apple Photo Access") was on America On-Line and Compuserve.
Multi-Format CD-ROMS
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CD-ROM ToolKit has a unique capability of mounting CD-ROMs that have both Macintosh HFS and ISO or ProDos formats. You need to open the CD-ROM ToolKit Control Panel and enable this through the Options button. CD-ROMs that are ISO9660 format but also have Macintosh HFS partitions need special care when being ejected. The current version of CDT requires that the ISO9660 partition be unmounted BEFORE the remaining Mac HFS partition is unmounted. There also exists a conflict between Apple's ISO9660 support and version 2.0 of Insignia's AccessPC™ that will cause the ISO9660 to not mount. AccessPC tries to mount the ISO9660 volume and fails, even before Apple's Foreign File Access software checks for ISO9660 mountability.
Early Apple Developer CDs (Volumes 1-7)
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These contain both an Apple II ProDOS partition and a Macintosh partition. To mount the ProDOS partition, you need to have the ProDOS File System extension in your System Folder, and the ProDOS mounting option enabled in CD-ROM ToolKit's Control Panel. This file is part of the Apple IIe card software for the Macintosh LC family. You can download this software from AppleLink from the following path:
Software Sampler
Apple SW Update
Macintosh
Peripherals
Apple IIe Card for LC
IIe Card for LC Startup 2.2
Pre-Scanning System 7 Alias files and Color Icon files
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Enabling Pre-scanning System 7 Alias files and System 7 folder icon files options can easily result in exhausting all caching buffers. Many of the CD-ROMs that contain color icons have hundreds of them that occupy a lot of cache space and require lots of pre-scanning time. By default, these two caching options are not enabled. Be aware that enabling these options may result in extremely long pre-scanning times and filling of all cache buffers.
Low Hard Disk Free Space
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If your startup hard disk volume is heavily fragmented and nearly full, preventing creation of the standard 3 MB cache file, CD-ROM ToolKit will attempt to allocate less disk space to the disk based cache file. Users can always free up disk space, delete the FWB CD-ROM Cache file from the Preferences folder inside the System Folder, and restart to force recreation of a larger cache file.
Adjusting CD-ROM File Cache
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The file cache size can be changed at any time, but changing it after the cache file has been created will require the user to trash the FWB CD-ROM Cache File from the Preferences folder in the System Folder and restarting to allow creation of one at the new size. The size can be set from 1500 to 5000K.
Known Incompatibilities :
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There are no reported incompatibilities worth noting except one: the Startup Manager included as part of Now Utilities 4.0.1, and earlier, may fail to load CD-ROM ToolKit into memory. The failure occurs before our product even gets a chance to start executing, and usually only fails when the CD RAM cache preference is set to a number much larger than the default of 232K. Several other problems with other products have been reported regarding Now's Startup Manager and we suggest not using that version.
Remember:
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Please remember to unmount all ProDOS and ISO9660 partitions before unmounting the last normal Mac HFS partition on CD-ROMs that contain more than one partition.
Playing Audio Tracks:
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Our player (and others') will not allow you to play the first track on most multimedia disks because that first track is not an audio track… it is a computer data track. There is no problem regarding this except for the confusion it may create. Renumbering the tracks to hide the first data track is not an honest solution, but would have eliminated the problem. Some multimedia CDs containing audio tracks include : "Battle Chess" and "Just Grandma & Me".
