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Article #2195Re: CD won't play music when booting from external HD
From: Paul Lynch
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:28
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:28
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In article <1992Dec19.161219.8090@owl.mn.org> brian@owl.mn.org writes: > 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? Known bug. If you have devices at both SCSI id 0 and 1, CDPlayer doesn't work. One solution is to move the SCSI ids so that one of 0 and 1 is free. Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!seer.demon.co.uk!paul From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: CD won't play music when booting from external HD Message-ID: <1992Dec20.002800.673@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <1992Dec19.161219.8090@owl.mn.org> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:28:00 GMT Lines: 26