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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!spurv.runit.sintef.no!aun.uninett.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!gregers!tore From: tore@gregers.nr.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen) Subject: Adaptec 1542b scsi card on BSD/386: which CD-ROM reader? Message-ID: <1992Dec4.111219.21985@ulrik.uio.no> Keywords: Sun CD-ROM player, BDS/386, adaptec scsi-card Sender: tore@gregers (Tore Solvar Karlsen) Nntp-Posting-Host: gregers.nr.no Reply-To: Tore.Karlsen@nr.no Organization: Norsk Regnesentral (NR) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 11:12:19 GMT Lines: 23 Two questions, one about installing a Adaptec scsi-card in a PC, the other about which CD-ROM reader to use together with the scsi-card, in order to install the system: 1. After unpacking and mounting the scsicard directly into the PC my floppy drive A are unusable. Moving the floppy cable over to the scsi-card gives no change. The scsi-card has default settings. The symptoms are (from DOS): When trying to access the A drive, the green ligth ligths for a moment, indicating contact, before I get the standard error message from DOS telling me that the drive (or floppy) is unavaillable. I'm sure someone reading this group can give me som hints :-) 2. I'm planning to save som money and use my standalone Sun CD-ROM player to load the system from the distribution CD to the disk. Has anyone tried this before? How about the DEC rrd40? Thank you in advance. If you reply by mail (tore.karlsen@nr.no) I'll post a summary. -- Tore Solvar