[954] in OS/2_Discussion
Success! $59 cdrom drive at CompUSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (klund@MIT.EDU)
Thu May 30 10:56:09 1996
From: klund@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 May 96 10:55:24 -0400
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU
CompUSA has a 4X cdrom drive on sale this week for $59, so I couldn't
resist. I knew it probably wouldn't work with Warp, but I love a
challenge, so I plopped down my discover card and took one home.
The brand name was "Hi-Val", so I knew there was little chance of
getting OS/2 support from the manufacturer, but I discovered the trick a
few years ago where you use dos to copy the OS/2 install cd to the
harddrive, and then boot the OS/2 install disks and install from the
harddrive, so I thought that I could do that at least. I wanted to
install Warp Server on this machine, and I wasn't looking forward to
swapping 800 floppies to do it.
Unpacking the cdrom drive, I noticed that it was a Pioneer OEM drive, so
I thought that might be a good sign. It had an IDE interface, and it
came with its own interface card. I have only one harddrive, so I
chucked the interface card, reset the jumpers on the cdrom drive to
slave mode, and stuck it in my machine.
Being a gambling man, I decided to try it under OS/2 first. I put the
Warp Server install cd in the drive, booted from the install disks, and
it worked. End of story.
I love OS/2.
--> Kent Lundberg, Director M.I.T. Room 38-591
M.I.T. OS/2 Users Group phone (617) 253-1938
http://web.mit.edu/os2/ fax (617) 647-1786
