Thanks to all those who have replied (both privately and on usenet). No-one has mentioned the boards - does anyone know what they were for? They seem to occur most often with Cumana-badged drives.
They are Panasonic/MKE interfaces. Throw them away unless you're using the very old Panasonic drives (look at the jumpers on the rear - drive1,2 etc). Connect ATAPI drives to the MB IDE connector.
Also, make sure the !slcd application isn't in your !Boot somewhere. This
loads the driver for the Cumana drives and I believe can cause problems
with other drivers.
In article <4e7189050dalan.dawes@argonet.co.uk>,
Alan P Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
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A few years ago whilst waiting for a replacement SCSI CD drive, I borrowed an IDE one and found that that only worked with my 1.2GB Fujitsu disk drive if I set the CD to master and the disk drive to slave - it seemed to work OK for the week or so I had to wait for the new SCSI CD drive.
What SCSI drive did you get, Alan, and is it ok? I had to rely on my flaky
Yamaha when having my IDE problems, and wouldn't mind a new one as they
seem to be more stable under RISC OS.
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Kris Adcock <news@danceswithferrets.ork> wrote:
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Could this be what the small "buffer" card I mentioned before is for? To better insulate the CD-ROM drive from problematic HDs? (I'll photograph one if people don't know what I mean - I have a fair few knocking about my office.) Cheers, Kris.
the small board was an interface for non atapi cd drives mostly
panasonic to the ide bus an was probably what most early rpc's would
have been fitted with, special driver modules where required.
John
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In article <4e71966d69dave@davenoise.co.uk>,
Dave Plowman (News) <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
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In article <4e7189050dalan.dawes@argonet.co.uk>, Alan P Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
Quote:
A few years ago whilst waiting for a replacement SCSI CD drive, I borrowed an IDE one and found that that only worked with my 1.2GB Fujitsu disk drive if I set the CD to master and the disk drive to slave - it seemed to work OK for the week or so I had to wait for the new SCSI CD drive.
What SCSI drive did you get, Alan, and is it ok? I had to rely on my flaky Yamaha when having my IDE problems, and wouldn't mind a new one as they seem to be more stable under RISC OS.
Toshiba 16x CD drive (NB this is not a writer I still have a working
Yamaha SCSI CD writer if I need it). However I think you will be very
lucky to find a SCSI CD drive now. About 15 months ago SCAN were selling
off the last ones for silly prices like 5 pounds.
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