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- From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: SONY CD-ROM & Adaptec 1542BK controller ...
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:12:26 GMT
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- wcsintd7@alfred.carleton.ca (Peter Kuciak) writes:
-
- >Hello all, I just purchased a computer (486-66) with an Adaptec 1542BK
- >controller and would like to hook up a SONY CD-ROM to it. The
- >question is how do I set up my Adaptec controller ?. Here is what I
- >did so far : I have a Toshiba MK438FB SCSI HD on the internal SCSI
- >cable, and a SONY 6211-10 CD-ROM (external). With the three
- >terminators in place (not removed) ASPI4DOS.SYS finds my HD as SCSI ID
- >0 and my CD-ROM as SCSI ID 3 (but it thinks it is a CDU-541 model ???)
-
- well,, maybe it is a CDU-541 (I think the most popular Sony CD-ROM)?
-
- >but ASPICD.SYS says : CD-ROM driver NOT LOADED: no valid devices
- >present. When I remove the three terminators from the board my HD is
- >not able to boot at all.
-
- well, if you have both internal and external devices connected to your
- Adaptec then you HAVE to remove the 3 terminators from the board; just
- make sure your external SCSI device (the one at the end of the
- external SCSI cable if you have more than one external) is properly
- terminated (either by a terminator connected to its second SCSI port
- or by some switch/jumber) on the device. Also make sure that you are
- using the correct CD-ROM driver (in Adaptecs CD driver package ASW410
- there is a specific driver for the SONY drives)
-
- Hope that helps...
-