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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM and OS/2 2.1b
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.223353.7227@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1jkhg8INN9po@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:33:53 GMT
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- In article <1jkhg8INN9po@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> hook@geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook) writes:
- >Sorry if this is a 'daft' posting, but I can`t figure out how to access
- >my NEC CD-ROM drive (model CDR 73) from within OS/2 2.1b.
- >When I installed OS/2, I selected to have the appropriate NEC CDROM
- >drivers installed. I have checked the config.sys file and different
- >CDROM .sys entries are certainly there (as well as a few other CD related entries)
- >and produce no problems upon booting up.
- >However, I'm not able to figure out how to access the CDROM. I have
- >no CDROM drive (like say L:, which is how I ahve it set up for when
- >I boot up under DOS), no CDROM Icon in the Drives folder, no appearent
- >cdrom tool in any folder what-so-ever.
- >How does one go to the CDROM?
-
- I suspect you are using the NEC-supplied SCSI adapter, which is made
- by Trantor. Trantor drivers for OS/2 are available via anonymous ftp
- from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. They are in directory /pub/os2/new at the
- moment, but check file /pub/os2/00Index if you can't find them there.
-
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