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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: NEC-84 CD-ROM with OS/2 2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.155747.3430@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 15:57:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.180818.23019@discus.technion.ac.il>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Aug30.180818.23019@discus.technion.ac.il> deg@techunix.technion.ac.il (David Goldfarb) writes:
- >I recently installed a NEC-84 CD-ROM drive on my machine, along with
- >the NEC SCSI controller that comes with it by default. For what it's
- >worth, I think that the controller is a repackaged Trantor T128.
- >OS/2 does not seem to recongnize the existence of this controller. I
- >tried the hack, mentioned in this newsgroup, of editing "TOSHIBA" to
- >read "NEC " in CDROM.SYS, but to no avail.
- >So, my question is: has anyone managed to make this controller work
- >with OS/2 2.0. Failing that, what is the cheapest SCSI controller I
- >can buy that does work with OS/2 2.0 and the NEC-84. (I'm hesitant
- >about spending too much money on a SCSI controller before the market
- >sorts itself out).
-
- Start by running your CD-ROM software in a specific DOS session -- see
- Appendix E of your Installation Guide and/or the online Command
- Reference (under VMDISK) for details.
-
- If that approach is not satisfactory, please post a follow up.
-
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