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- From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows-setup
- Subject: Re: dos/win31 file access, mscdex, audio cd, nec 84
- Keywords: nec cdr-84, mscdex v2.2, audio cd
- Message-ID: <jcmorris.715971711@mwunix>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:01:51 GMT
- References: <zdzy0bf@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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- moncrg@rs6118.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
-
- >i have the following problem with my nec 84 cd-rom drive when
- >playing an audio cd:
-
- >if the machine is rebooted it will halt in the autoexec.bat
- >when it is trying to load the mscdex until the audio disk is
- >ejected
-
- >using various file commands in windows, including, sometimes,
- >starting file manager, or using the file open command from
- >many various and sundry programs, including winword, will halt
- >until the audio disk is ejected
-
- >if mscdex puts the cd-rom at d:, and someone accidentally does
- >a log on to drive d, control does not return until the audio
- >disk is ejected
-
- >it seems that there is no way in which a program can reliably
- >tell if the cd is data or audio....
-
- FWIW I have not seen this problem on my system, which uses a Denon
- CD-ROM drive and a Future Domain MCS-350 controller. An attempt to
- access the CD-ROM drive while an audio disk is present results in
- an I/O error message.
-
- I suspect that your SCSI driver software is at fault, but without
- more info I can't be sure.
-
- Joe Morris / MITRE
-