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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:36:48 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< scoug-help@scoug.com, Jerry Rash > rashj@pacbell.net >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DVDs ain't happening over here

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This can be considered an aftermath to Jerry's demo, and a follow-up
to my problems getting RSJ to work on the eCS 1.1 partitions of the
Shuttle XPC box.

The latter part first, and a special note to HCM: That cockamamie,
altered CDDRV.INF file RSJ sent me (with the 6 versions of the
operable line for the Pioneer burner I currently have installed) seems
to work . . . *for burning CDs.* One case closed, another remains
open.

Neither RSJ 5.05 nor PMFORMAT seems to want any part of working with
DVDs -- of *any* format. I have UDF 214 installed, plus the
prerequisite stuff like the current OS2LDR, and I'm following Jerry's
admonition to have a RW DVD in the drive at boot-time. I am using the
"Refresh Removeable Media" item whenever that seems like it might be
appropriate. What happens is either: 1) A "The System Cannot Format
the Disk" error, or 2) PMFORMAT views the +R or -R as either a 360kb.
or a 2.88 floppy. (I did not attempt to format an RW of either
type.) So far, it seems to me that the variable governing which of
these two situations occurs is the particular version of OS2CDROM that
is called at bootup. I've been using either .127 (circa 11/03, I
think) or .139 (circa 6/04 ?), the two most recent versions. At this
point, I don't exactly recall which does which. One of them can see
what's on a data DVD I've made with Nero 6, the other one can't even
access the drive if a DVD is in it.

This may be a reflection of the problems cited in that selection of
eCS newsgroup messages I posted last month, which I will re-attach
here for anyone who may be curious. The short version seems to be
that the various pieces just don't work together: in some
combinations, something (like CD-burning) will work, but something
else (like DVD support) will be broken. If there is some *correct*
combination, in which most everything works, I would like to learn
exactly what it is.

Jordan

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