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Worked for Iomega USB
Authored by: dcoyle on Dec 30, '02 02:08:49AM

Thanks for the tip. It worked great for an Iomega USB drive. The file to hack is PhilipsCDR.device-plugin. Look for the text "ZIPCD 650". Right under that will be the string that identifies the drive, which will be "ZIPCD1024EXT". Replace that with the string your drive uses. In my case it was "CDRW23042EXT3-B".


I don't own Toast, so to find out what this string was, I loaded the Iomega software which was included with the drive, called Hotburn, in OS 9 and used that. Although similar to the model number listed on the drives manufacturer's tag, it is not the same. This might be the problem some people are having.


To the poster that needs to put in a string longer than the original, just overwrite the adjacent null characters, which show up as "." in the ASCII column of HexEdit. In other words, you only replace characters, not add them. When you are done, GetInfo should show the exact same file size for both the original and hacked file.


Thanks for a great site and all the useful tips.



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Worked for Iomega USB
Authored by: crogman on Jul 13, '03 12:32:26PM

For the Iomega CD-RW 48x24x48, you edit the LiteOn device plugin. Change "CDRW2304FEXT-B" to "CDRW55292EXT3-B" or "CDRW55292EXT3-C". Use Apple System Profiler to figure out whether your drive is the B or C version. Note: you will need to overwrite one of the null characters since the new string is one character longer.



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Need help with Iomega USB and Hex
Authored by: soulisshaking on Aug 24, '03 05:45:09PM

Hello, I have found the files, and loaded them into the Hex editor program that shows up on this website for download. I do not know how to change the file though.

If I drag the Phillips file icon to the desktop, the hex editor will let me change that file. But if I try to change the file that is locked, it says that I cannot change that file.....Any help would be appreciated. And to the gentleman who posted the correct string of numbers and letters to use for the iomega drive, did you have a iomega cdrw zip cd 650 USB 4x4x6? Thanks for the help and tips!!!



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