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- From: gewither@mailbox.syr.edu (gewither)
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- Subject: Re: A2386sx BB and AmiCDEx
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 21:17:15 GMT
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (USA)
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- >John S. Burger wrote:
- >>
- >> 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.
- >>
- >> Thanks in advance! :<)
- >>
-
- >Well, do you have the MSCDEX line in your autoexec.bat
- >(LOADHIGH=C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000) without the parenthesis?
- >It's *VERY* important, as your CD-ROM will not work without it!
- >This is covered in the AmiCDEX documentation :^)
-
- >--
- > Dr. Michel J. Brown, D.C.
- > mjbrown@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~mjbrown
- > 101010 -- The answer to life, the universe, and everything!
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- I have done the exact same things and it doesn't wok for me either.
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