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OS5 and dual port IDE cd-rom

OS5 and dual port IDE cd-rom

Post by jmagi » Sun, 02 Jul 1995 04:00:00



Workwise I use multiprocessor systems with scsi drives and cd-roms however
at home i have a DX4/100 with a dual port IDE on the mother board. Anyone
know why the cd-rom does not work sco's documentation state that i can use
ide cd-rom drives if they are EIDE complaint. How do I know if the cd is
EIDE complaint. The drive is a vertos 300 ssd.
cheers
 
 
 
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OS5 and dual port IDE cd-rom

Post by Geoffrey Wel » Mon, 03 Jul 1995 04:00:00



> Workwise I use multiprocessor systems with scsi drives and cd-roms however
> at home i have a DX4/100 with a dual port IDE on the mother board. Anyone
> know why the cd-rom does not work sco's documentation state that i can use
> ide cd-rom drives if they are EIDE complaint. How do I know if the cd is
> EIDE complaint. The drive is a vertos 300 ssd.

Bad SCO!  Bad choice of wording!  "EIDE" is meaningless.  SCO probably mean -
and should have said - "ATAPI".

Are you sure that the hardware is all installed, enabled, configured?  If it
works under MS-DOS, then the secondary port will be enabled and the I/O
addresses set, but MS-DOS generally doesn't use interrupts or DMA for ATA type
devices so those may be set incorrectly.

--
        Geoffrey Welsh, Senior Programmer, InSystems Technologies Inc.

       We can only hope that people will outgrow the need for government
      before the government finishes outgrowing the need for the people.

 
 
 
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