NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/sysadmin/7151

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Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!seer.demon.co.uk!paul
From: [e-mail] (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: CD won't play music when booting from external HD
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Organization: P & L Systems
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:28:00 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
> My CD won't play music when I boot off my external hard disk.  It works
> fine when I boot off the internal drive at address 0 (the external drive
> is at address 1 and the CD is at address 4).  I turn off the ext. drive
> and boot from the internal drive (both disks have the save version of
> software/opsys).  What gives here? The CDPlayer app comes up with a
panel
> saying "Couldn't open the CD-ROM drive." The external drive is
physically
> positioned in front of the CD drive on the SCSI and I think this has
> something to do with it.  If I need to change the external drive to
> address 0 and put the CD at address 1 I can do this.  Problem is I don't
> know how to change the address of the NeXT internal drive (250 mb drive
> that shipped with my color turbo - I think it's a Maxtor).  Anyone
> familiar with this problem and is the solution to flop addresses?

Known bug.  If you have devices at both SCSI id 0 and 1, CDPlayer doesn't
work.  One solution is to move the SCSI ids so that one of 0 and 1 is
free.

Paul
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