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- From: hscohen@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Harvey S. Cohen)
- Subject: Re: Dust & NEC 73J
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:03:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.180351.18400@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <92360.001758DI3QC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- In article <92360.001758DI3QC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <DI3QC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- > My question for anyone out ther is: I have a Nec 73j and I used to read a
- >disc no problem a what I thought was a reasonable rate. Nowadays I try to read
- >the same disc and when a program requests directory info and to load a prog or
- >file it seems (it actually is) much longer. I used an air gun an blew out a bit
- >of dust but the problem persists. Any ideas.
- My NEC 83M, purchased in April 1992, started doing this around November.
- It finally got to the point where the driver started saying "Warning: No
- devices respond to SCSI host adaptor." I sent it to NEC (1-708-860-0335)
- for warrenty service. I'll post a report when it comes back.
- > Also why is it that I need a disc in the cd rom drive when booting the
- >machine. Also itr must be a disc that dos can read. It cant be a music format.
- Mine did not do this.
- >Any ideas I would be grateful for. Thanks.
- > Alex Jeannopoulos
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