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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!dscope!jld
- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: NEC-84 CD-ROM with OS/2 2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.162632.3359@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <1992Aug30.180818.23019@discus.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:26:32 GMT
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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).
-
- I saw a Trantor SCSI driver on compuserve but I have had a chance to
- download it and try it out. You might give it a try (and let me know how
- it works).
-
- ---Jay Davis
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