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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: what to pick for NEC SCSI card?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184746.12779@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:47:46 GMT
- References: <hook-250193083636@port63.annex1.net.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <hook-250193083636@port63.annex1.net.ubc.ca> hook@geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook) writes:
- >A while back, I posted a request for help as far as getting my NEC CDR-73
- >CDROM drive to work under OS/2 2.1b. The NEC CDR-73 is certainly
- >one of the listed CDROM drives in the selective install CDROM section,
- >and all the appropriate files seem to get installed and set up in
- >my config.sys file. The machine boots up fine (no config.sys errors)
- >but still there is no icon for the CDROM drive and no drive
- >letter assigned to it for command line refernceing.
- >It appears to me that my problem with this is that the PC thats
- >using the CDROM ( a generic 486 33MZ ISA bus clone ) is using
- >the NEC supplied SCSI adapter. There is no reference to this adapter
- >in the SCSI adapter installation of the selective install
- >menu.
- >Does anyone know if:
- > 1. I can pick some reasonable substitute for the NEC SCSI adapter
- >from the supplied OS/2 2.1b selective install SCSI adapter list.
- >2. I can get an NEC SCSI adapter OS/2 compliant driver set to
- >install.
-
- Option 2 can be satisfied, which is probably what you'd prefer. Get
- ahold of the file trntradd.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check file /pub/os2/00Index for location). This
- file contains .ADD drivers to get your SCSI adapter working.
-
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