[Duo2400] Re: UltraDock 16sc - making CD drive work?

Paul Nelson artworks at victoria.tc.ca
Fri Feb 28 10:05:54 PST 2003


>somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 2/27/03 4:47 PM, the entity known
>as Mike Rohde transmitted the following from mike at rohdesign.com:
>
>>> OK, I've got my 280c docked to the Ultradock and I just decided to
>>>hookup an
>>> external CD drive to run my Norton CD.  But it refuses to recognize the CD
>>> drive.  As in none of my SCSI utilities even sees it as present on the
>>> chain!  And yes, I've done some extension checking (the drive isn't seen,
>>> even when extensions are off).  Also, the same drive setup works just fine
>>> on my MiniDock.  I've checked termination and even swapped out cables.  So
>>> I'm wondering if there was some trick to getting the UltraDock to recognize
>>> a CD drive.  TIA.
>>
>> I wonder if you must have special drivers? I have a small CD reader here for
>> the Duo that required I use FWB CD Toolkit to boot.
>>
>> I do know it requires a driver to get Ethernet working properly, so I just
>> made a guess that maybe there's a driver needed for SCSI too.
>>
>> Could be way off though. ;-)
>
>Thanks.  I tried CD SpeedTools driver.  I'll probably try a few others.  But
>it's suspicious that the CD drive completely doesn't even show up as being
>on the SCSI chain.
>
>- Eric.
>--
>
>Eric Strobel (fyzycyst at NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
>


	How about an ID# conflict?
Paul




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