rafe writes:

> since the CD burner died I've got a DVD burner on its way from
> NewEgg. two issues (only!):
>
> 1) it's IDE, since apparently they don't make SCSI anymore or at least
> they don't sell them for less than 5x the cost of IDE. however,
> everything on this box is (and has always been) SCSI.

You could get yourself an ATAPI --> SCSI bridge and keep your system
all SCSI.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:48:49 UTC in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, "rafe"
wrote:

> since the CD burner died I've got a DVD burner on its way from
> NewEgg. two issues (only!):
>
> 1) it's IDE, since apparently they don't make SCSI anymore or at least
> they don't sell them for less than 5x the cost of IDE. however,
> everything on this box is (and has always been) SCSI. is there
> anything more to setting it up besides hooking up the cable to the
> motherboard -- does it matter slave/master

Just hook it up. Master would be best if it's your only IDE device.

> 2) naturally will be using Daniela's IDE drivers -- I'm presuming if I
> place them in config.sys without any statements it'll work just fine.
> is there anything else I need for OS/2 to recognize DVDs? will be
> awesome to be able to burn these all at once rather than having to
> burn 8 or 9 CDs to backup my system. is there something akin to CDIFS
> I'll need?

You need

BASEDEV=DANIS506.add /v
BASEDEV=daniatapi.FLT

You probably already have

BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL
device=h:\os2\mdos\vaspi.sys
device=h:\os2\boot\aspirout.sys

You may also want to install UDF and use DVD+/-RW disks and treat them as large
removeable drives.


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