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David C Gilliland (ac446@rgfn.epcc.edu) wrote:
: Mark Josephson (icebox@MCS.COM) wrote:
: : Mark Josephson (icebox@MCS.COM) wrote:
: : : The CD Rom that ZEOS provided with my Pantera 90 last September seems to be a
: : : model not supported by anyone.  Soundblaster didn't have a driver for it, 
: : : now I find that the Mitsumi driver provided with OS2 Warp doesn't support it
: : : either.  Wen I attempt to install Warp from CD (with the 11/3/94 driver), I
: : : get told that OS2 can't find my CD.  Where can I find a driver for this
: : : model.  Is it a rare model?  

: : I'm following up to my own post to say that I found drivers that would work 
: : for the Mitsumi FX001DE drive.  However, I also found that the driver was
: : only part of the problem.  ZEOS shipped the CD ROM jumpered as a slave on the
: : second IDE controller.  The only problem is that it was alone on that cable.
: : I had thought this was rather odd when I had my machine open back in November
: : to put in some other stuff, but since the CD was working OK, I didn't do
: : anything about it.  Well, OS2 couldn't see the CD when it was jumpered like
: : that.  Jumpering the CDROM as master solved the problem.  

: : Question for Kevin:  Does Zeos normally jumper CD-ROMs as slaves when they are
: : on their own cable?  This little oversight cost me a lot of hair pulling & 
: : wasted most of my Saturday trying to run down the !@#@# problem.  

: : 2nd Question:  I know that hard drives will not work jumpered the way my 
: : CD ROM was.  Why would an IDE CD-ROM jumpered as a masterless slave be visble
: : to DOS but not OS2 while a HD in that position would cause an error?

: : Questions....questions...questions

: : --
: : Mark Josephson    "Stereo stereo describes my scenario"  
: : icebox@mcs.com       --Public Enemy, "Don't Believe the Hype"

: Question: I just ordered a Zeos Pantera 100 and I don't want to have
: to suffer with this same problem when I install Warp.  Could you
: tell me what exactly you mean by  "jumpered as a masterless
: slave" and what you did to remedy the situation, if Zeos themselves
: haven't already? 
: Dave
: "
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