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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Subject: Re: More CD-ROM questions.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.022331.29492@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec30.144439.8217@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:23:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.144439.8217@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cjones@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles J. Jones) writes:
- >Earlier I posted asking advice on getting my Future Domain 850 SCSI controller
- >driver working happily under OS/2. Thanks to the advice of several persons
- >here I achieved that goal. Now I have a different problem.
- >
- >When I cold-boot the system, after the OS/2 title screen, the config.sys
- >reports "No SCSI devices found". The SCSI driver (for a FD 850) has been
- >correctly loaded, but for some reason it can't find the CD-ROM on the SCSI
- >chain. Now if I immediately shutdown and warm-boot then the driver finds
- >the drive just fine! So something is initializing something else somewhere.
- >
- >Is this something to do with the order of drivers in the CONFIG.SYS? If
- >so is there anywhere that I could find a reference that would explain how
- >the CONFIG.SYS file should be ordered? I wish IBM had put in better
- >documentation!
-
- No, I don't think so. I have a tape drive that takes about 60 seconds to
- cycle through its POST. In the mean time, it seems to have an adverse
- affect on booting OS/2 and loading the Sytos tape drivers. I added a 60
- second delay to the boot manager (which I was using anyway) and have had
- no problems. You may be experiencing something similar, in that your
- CDROM drive may not be ready for OS/2...if you could turn on your CD
- before or introduce a delay in the cold boot sequence...
-
- Jeff
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