#mitsumi error message
28-Jun-93 14:48:13
Sb: #51499-#mitsumi error message
Fm: Robin Collins 100015,416
To: Tony Gattuso /Va 73700,514
Tony,
Do you mean:
CDR101: No ready reading drive Z?
when you try a DIR? As far as I can see this is the same thing as the "Drive
not ready" you get if you DIR A: without a floppy. (BTW, 4DOS simply says
"CD-ROM not ready").
When you power on does the activity light blip? (if so, you got power). Put a
CD in the drive, label facing you. Boot the system and after the CDR101 message
open the drive. Has the CD revolved? A friend of mine had the sort of problem
you're seeing and it was a faulty motor.
To try to eliminate hardware conflicts try using the software-polled driver,
not the interrupt driven one, ie.
device=mtmcds.sys /p:300
if you've changed the card's address change the 300 appropriately. If you do
this and you still get the message you almost certainly have a dead drive or
card.
Hope this gives you an idea to help you get going,
Robin