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From: sundboe@bgibm1.nho.hydro.com (Terje Thoegersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with Toshiba 3401 CDROM
Date: 21 Apr 1993 00:50:05 GMT
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In article <1993Apr20.191255.10115@news.columbia.edu>, imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini) writes:
|> Hi!
|> 	I recently purchased the Toshiba 3401 CDROM.  I own an Adaptec 1542B
|> SCSI card, and I have so far failed to get the CDROM to work under DOS.  It
|> works very well under OS/2, so I know that the drive is not faulty.
|> In my config.sys, I have aspi3dos.sys, aspidisk.sys, aspicd.sys.  In my 
|> autoexec.bat, I have MSCDEX, which came with DOS 6.0.  MSCDEX seems to find
|> and install the drive as drive F:, but when I switch to that drive and try a
|> dir, I get an error message telling me the drive is not ready or something
|> like that.  The CDROM is locked too, and the adaptec utilities don't seem to
|> recognize that I have a CDROM at that point.
|> 	Has anyone ever had this problem?  Is there something abvious that I
|> am missing?  And finally, I was wondering if anyone using this setup could 
|> kindly post his/her config.sys and autoexec.bat.
|> 

Hi!

One of the ASPI-drivers (I think it's the ASPICD) supports a /NORST
paramter, which means to not reset the SCSI bus when it loads. This
fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec+tosh 
3401.

Regards,

  -Terje
