Hacking Apple's CD-ROM extensions

I have burned a 701.2 MB CD-ROM containing old Macintosh software using my '17 iMac G5. I have tried the downloadable Apple CD-ROM Extension 5.4 & I have extracted version 5.4.2 of the Apple CD-ROM Extension from my Mac OS 8.1 CD-ROM by using TomeViewer. How might I hack one of these two Apple CD-ROM Extensions so they can read large CD-ROMs that are 700 MBs or more in size?
I would also like to know which of the other extensions such as ISO 9660 File Access, Foreign File Access, High Sierra File Access would need to be hacked for this to work properly too. I already have ResEdit. I just need to know what resources to change or manipulate to allow larger CD-ROMs to be read successfully.
Both of my external SCSI CD-ROM drives are Apple external SCSI CD-ROM drives so that shouldn't be an issue either.

Hi,
How do you know that a CD-ROM extension is to blame in this case (BTW, it would hardly be appropriate to discuss such software hacking here)? The problem may be hardware related. An old CD-ROM drive can have difficulties handling certain modern discs (e.g., CD-RW). Are you using 700 MB CD-R? Could this or this possibly be of interest?
Jan

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