System hangs during A/UX CDROM install

[Alexis Rosen]

In article <117 at w3vh.UUCP> rolfe at w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
>I've been pulling my hair out for two days trying to install A/UX 2.01
>from CDROM (a CD Technologies Portadrive) to a Mac II (w/PMMU) and a new
>Maxtor 340 meg external drive from Alliance Peripheral.
>
>The drive was formatted and partitioned with Silverlining 5.28 using the
>defaults for handshaking and choosing a "minimum Mac OS" setup.

I'm afraid the drive isn't the problem. If memory serves, your CD-ROM is
based on an NEC mechanism. This unit is not compatible with A/UX. In fact,
it's not a particularly good CD-ROM at all. If I'm right that it's an NEC
and you decide to replace it, get a Toshiba. They're very good.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
alexis at panix.com
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