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Article #16166Re: what to pick for NEC SCSI card?
From: Timothy F. Sipples
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:47
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. -- Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP") of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!ellis!sip1 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> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago Lines: 29