CD won't play music when booting from external HD

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3 total messages Started by brian Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:12

#2191

Author: 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?

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

#2195

Author: Paul Lynch
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
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Paul Lynch
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Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com

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

#1974

Author: Ulrich Grepel
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:06

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In article <1992Dec20.002800.673@seer.demon.co.uk>, paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec19.161219.8090@owl.mn.org> brian@owl.mn.org writes:
|> > [Wondering about Audio CDs not being able to be played}
|> 
|> 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.
|> 
The other solution is to enable 'public window server' in the preferences, but
that might be a security problem for some people.

Uli

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