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Greg Berchin
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:53 am Post subject:
SCSI under DOS |
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I have an old Windows 95 system that I keep around for compatibility
with some software. The only CD-ROM drive in this system is a Philips
CDD 2600 SCSI; the SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2910. Everything works
just fine under W95, but there is a problem if I boot to DOS. The
adapter and drive are correctly identified by aspi8dos.sys and
aspicd.sys:
Host Adapter 0, Target SCSI ID = 4 - LUN 0: PHILIPS CDD2600 1.07
The CD-ROM drive is identified by mscdex.exe:
Drive W: = Driver CDROM001 unit 0
But when I try to access the drive, it gives me a "not ready" error even
with a disk in drive:
Not ready reading drive W
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Here are the pertinent parts of config.sys:
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
BUFFERS=20
FILES=60
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:cdrom001
.... and of autoexec.bat:
MSCDEX.EXE /D:cdrom001 /L:W
Ideas as to how to solve this problem?
Thank you,
Greg |
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Bruce Morgen
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:25 am Post subject:
Re: SCSI under DOS |
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Greg Berchin <76145.2455@compuswerve.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have an old Windows 95 system that I keep around for compatibility
with some software. The only CD-ROM drive in this system is a Philips
CDD 2600 SCSI; the SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2910. Everything works
just fine under W95, but there is a problem if I boot to DOS. The
adapter and drive are correctly identified by aspi8dos.sys and
aspicd.sys:
Host Adapter 0, Target SCSI ID = 4 - LUN 0: PHILIPS CDD2600 1.07
The CD-ROM drive is identified by mscdex.exe:
Drive W: = Driver CDROM001 unit 0
But when I try to access the drive, it gives me a "not ready" error even
with a disk in drive:
Not ready reading drive W
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Here are the pertinent parts of config.sys:
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
BUFFERS=20
FILES=60
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:cdrom001
... and of autoexec.bat:
MSCDEX.EXE /D:cdrom001 /L:W
Ideas as to how to solve this problem?
First, try a few |
different CDs (both CDs
and CD-Rs) to make sure
it's utterly unusable
under MSCDEX, then, if
the problem persists:
Get another CD-ROM drive
-- they're cheap as dirt
these days and swapping
in another brand of
drive will eliminate
some oddball hardware
incompatibility as the
source of the problem.
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Greg Berchin
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject:
Re: SCSI under DOS |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:02:02 -0400, Bruce Morgen <editor@juno.com>
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| Quote: | Get another CD-ROM drive
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Well, I guess that's always a viable solution, but where's the fun in
it? Anyway, to follow-up, after many hours of Web searching I found
that the problem is an incompatibility between Adaptec "ASPICD.SYS" and
the Philips CD drive. Changing to Iomega "SCSICD.SYS" solved the
problem, believe it or not.
Greg |
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Bruce Morgen
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:
Re: SCSI under DOS |
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Greg Berchin <76145.2455@compuswerve.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:02:02 -0400, Bruce Morgen <editor@juno.com
wrote:
Get another CD-ROM drive
Well, I guess that's always a viable solution, but where's the fun in
it? Anyway, to follow-up, after many hours of Web searching I found
that the problem is an incompatibility between Adaptec "ASPICD.SYS" and
the Philips CD drive. Changing to Iomega "SCSICD.SYS" solved the
problem, believe it or not.
Oh I believe it -- that's |
exactly what I meant by
"oddball hardware
incompatibility!"
Congratulations on
finding such an easy fix!
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