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Re: what to pick for NEC SCSI card?

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From: Timothy F. Sipples
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:47
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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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Subject: Re: what to pick for NEC SCSI card?
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