Apple CD-ROM driver and support for third party drives

Max Schaefer writes that the new Apple CD-ROM version 5.3.2 (which updates the 5.3.1 version that comes with Mac OS 7.6) did not work with the NEC CD-ROM drive that came with his PowerBase 180. Oddly, the older version 5.3.1 did work. Bill Fox sent me details of a similar situation, as now reported on his web page - which also has a response from Power Computing.