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From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: CD-ROM and ISC Unix and VP/ix?  Help!
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.003725.455@crom2.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 91 00:37:25 GMT
Organization: Abbey Technologies - Athens GA
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     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