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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!bhenning
- From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
- Subject: Re: NEC Express CDR 25
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:10:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <C01HH8.KE6@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec29.031443.11605@vedge.com>
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Dec29.031443.11605@vedge.com> hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom) writes:
- >Real soon now, I expect to be getting the DAP CD.
- >I'd like to prepare for it by buying a CD-ROM drive.
- >Locally available is a thing called the "NEC Express",
- >which comes with device drivers for DOS. The salesman *thinks*
- >there is an OS/2 driver for it, but does not know
- >for sure. IBM informs me that the NEC CDR 84 and NEC CDR 74
- >are on their list of drives they know to work, and that other drives
- >may well work too. The drive in the "NEC Express" is,
- >however, a NEC CDR 25.
- >
- >Does anyone know if this drive works with the OS/2 DAP disk?
- >And does anyone know where to obtain the driver?
- >
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------
- >Try one or more of the following addresses to reply.
- >at work: hendrik@vedge.com, iros1!vedge!hendrik
- >at home: uunet!ozrout!topoi!hendrik
-
- There are drivers for many non-ibm cdrom drives available on
- the OS2 BBS (IBM - at least the vancouver one at 604-664-6464)
- including specific support for NEC 36/74/84, which *may* work
- with the CDR25. The card supplied with the NEC Express package
- is a Trantor 130B (or at least the one I saw identified itself
- as such) for which drivers were posted on comp.binaries.os2 a
- while ago. Let me know if it works (it probably should, I would
- think NEC would make its drive compatible with its other drives)
- as I may get the same package.
-
- Bill
-