From:	jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date:	Sat, 15 Mar 1997 00:56:00 -0500 (EST)
To:	"Jason M. Daniels" <bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu>
Cc:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] eroneous error message on cdrom drive
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I'll buy that position provided it's true that neither mscdex.exe nor
nwcdex.exe are used to play music disks.  If either driver is used for
this
purpose though I maintain my position that this classifies as an
eroneous error message.
On
Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Jason M. Daniels wrote:

> 
> 
> >
> >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.
> 
> 
> --
> Jason Daniels -- bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu
> http://www.trailerpark.com/phase2/fireside/index.htm
> Paradox #218: "Saying 'I'm very modest' isn't."
> Commodore 64 forever!
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>

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