re problems with toshiba cdrom in article apr news columbia edu imj cunixa cc columbia edu imad m jureidini writes hi i recently purchased the toshiba cdrom i own an adaptec b scsi card and i have so far failed to get the cdrom to work under dos it works very well under os so i know that the drive is not faulty in my config sys i have aspi dos sys aspidisk sys aspicd sys in my autoexec bat i have mscdex which came with dos mscdex seems to find and install the drive as drive f but when i switch to that drive and try a dir i get an error message telling me the drive is not ready or something like that the cdrom is locked too and the adaptec utilities don t seem to recognize that i have a cdrom at that point has anyone ever had this problem is there something abvious that i am missing and finally i was wondering if anyone using this setup could kindly post his her config sys and autoexec bat hi one of the aspi drivers i think it s the aspicd supports a norst paramter which means to not reset the scsi bus when it loads this fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec tosh regards terje
