Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 97 21:46:10 MST
Message-Id:	<9703150446.AA18171@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From:	bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Jason M. Daniels)
To:	jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Subject:	Re: [opendos] eroneous error message on cdrom drive
Cc:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Reply-To:	bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu
Sender:	owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

>
>I got one of those i/o error messages on my cdrom drive later too.
>That really wasn't an error since I had put a music cd in that drive.
>a cd player program was able to play it with no problem at all.
>the cdrom drives usually came back with a cdr101 error message under
>msdos when a music disk had been put in the drive and
>someone tried accessing it like a data disk.
>Opendos should probably tell the user music disk in cd rom drive rather
>than come up with that eroneous error message.
>

This is not an erroneous error message. NWCDEX (or MSCDEX) tries to 
access your disk as a data disk, and cannot. It correctly reports this as 
an I\O error.


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