CD won't play music when booting from external HD

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From: brian
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:12

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My CD won't play music when I boot off my external hard disk.  It works
fine when I boot off the internal drive at address 0 (the external drive
is at address 1 and the CD is at address 4).  I turn off the ext. drive
and boot from the internal drive (both disks have the save version of
software/opsys).  What gives here? The CDPlayer app comes up with a panel
saying "Couldn't open the CD-ROM drive." The external drive is physically
positioned in front of the CD drive on the SCSI and I think this has
something to do with it.  If I need to change the external drive to
address 0 and put the CD at address 1 I can do this.  Problem is I don't
know how to change the address of the NeXT internal drive (250 mb drive
that shipped with my color turbo - I think it's a Maxtor).  Anyone
familiar with this problem and is the solution to flop addresses?

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Subject: CD won't play music when booting from external HD
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