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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: More CD-ROM questions.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.230141.359@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 23:01:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.144439.8217@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.144439.8217@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cjones@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles J. Jones) writes:
- >When I cold-boot the system, after the OS/2 title screen, the config.sys
- >reports "No SCSI devices found". The SCSI driver (for a FD 850) has been
- >correctly loaded, but for some reason it can't find the CD-ROM on the SCSI
- >chain. Now if I immediately shutdown and warm-boot then the driver finds
- >the drive just fine! So something is initializing something else somewhere.
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- I've known a few CD-ROM drives that would return this error unless a
- disc was loaded at boot time. So we'd always have a disc in the
- drive, in order to ensure a successful boot. This wasn't a problem
- under DOS, since the MSCDEX drivers would try to access the drive
- whether it was ready or not.
-
- I'm not sure which I prefer! :-)
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