jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) (04/26/91)
Can anyone give me any hints about getting a CD-ROM drive recognized from within VP/ix? Everything works fine under true DOS, so I know it isn't a hardware problem. The device driver (HITACHIA.SYS) is loaded by VP/ix's config.sys file and the DOS extensions (MSCDEX.EXE) are called by VP/ix's autoexec.bat. When I call up VP/ix I get the correct messages that these items are being loaded succesfully, but when I try to get a directory listing or anything else from the CD-ROM drive all I get is CDR101: Not ready error reading drive D Abort, Retry, Fail? I'm running Interactive Unix release 2.2 and Interactive's VP/ix. I have begun to wonder if what I'm trying to do is even possible. I remember when I added a mouse to the system I had to both load a DOS mouse driver *and* put an entry in vpix.cnf pointing to the /dev/mouse device file before it would work in VP/ix. But in the case of the CD-ROM there doesn't seem to be anything that looks like a Unix CD-ROM device file. Are CD-ROMs simply not supported under VP/ix? Is there any way to con- figure a CD-ROM in as a "nonstandard device"? If you have a CD-ROM reader working under any flavor of VP/ix (not just Interactive's) I'd be most interested and grateful to hear your experiences. Thanks very much, James P. H. Fuller jim%crom2@nstar.rn.com