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- From: ac224@detroit.freenet.org (Jim Harvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: A2386sx BB and AmiCDEx
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 02:09:24 GMT
- Organization: Greater Detroit Free-Net, Detroit, MI
- Message-ID: <4gogck$qp0@detroit.freenet.org>
- References: <1617.6625T1147T2564@xmission.com>
- Reply-To: ac224@detroit.freenet.org (Jim Harvey)
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- In a previous article, jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger) says:
-
- >I just baught a Toshiba 3701B CD-ROM drive. I am trying to get it working with
- >my A2386 BB and AmiCDEx. I have installed AmiCDEx on both the Amiga and the
- >BB. Everything runs fine but I can't get the BB to access the drive. If I try
- >to do a directory of the CD from the BB I get the following errors.
- >
- >On the BB I get:
- >
- >CDR 101: Not ready reading drive E
- >Abort, Retry, Fail?
- >
- >On the Amiga side I get:
- >
- >error: err = 42, sec = 16 dec, $10, []
- >
- >The drive is accessed from the BB side ( the Amiga SCSII controler light and
- >the CD-ROM light flicker). If I run AmiCDEx on the Amiga side with the debug
- >option it looks like the system thinks there is no disk in the drive. I only
- >have one MS-DOS CD. It is the American Heritage Dictonary. Could it just be a
- >problem with this CD?
- >
- >Does anyone out there have a fix for this problem? BTW, I have booted the
- >Amiga with a vanilla startup-sequence and no user-startup with the same
- >results. See the sig for pertinent hardware.
- >
-
- I had to turn off the audio CD capability with my NEC CDR25, it worked
- fine after that.
-
- Damn fine piece of software. Installed Corel 3 and Turbotax on the BBoard
- no problem.
-
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- Jim Harvey - WB8NBS - 18538 Inkster - Redford, Mich. 48240 Amiga Person
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