Brenton, at 21:47 on Aug 08 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Does anybody have any idea why my DOS CD-ROM driver CR_ATAPI.SYS
BG> refuses to load on this Triton II 430VX board (Cx6x86/120 CPU) ?

BV> Yep.

Your insight is greatly appreciated.  :)

BG> Win95 and OS/2 both perform perfectly, but if I attempt to boot
BG> native MS-DOS, the system halts with a Divide Overflow, and its
BG> definitely the CD-ROM driver at fault.

BV> Aha.

Have you taken anything for that sore throat of yours yet?

BG> Anybody have any useful suggestions ?

BV> Perhaps. First you've got to stop buying shit equipment from Edge.

What, like Banksia modems, for which they are the local agents?  ROFL!

BV> As for your current problem, ditch the drivers that came with your
BV> CD-ROM reader. The Triton II motherboard should have been supplied
BV> with CD-ROM drivers and you've got to use them if you want it to
BV> work. There is something a little strange with the Triton II IDE I/F
BV> and I don't know exactly what it is yet, but you've just run into it.
BV> If Edge can't give you drivers that will work, get them to give you
BV> your money back instead.

See my messages to Bob and Rod in this packet.  Turns out that the driver
was nothing more than a buggy piece of shit, and a new one solved the
problem.

Regarding Edge, I tend to agree with you in principle, but if one purchases
carefully and selectively, they're not such a bad mob.   I certainly can't
complain about some of their prices, such as...

Triton II 430VX ....... $124
IBM 6x86/100 inc fan .. $110
1.2Gb WD mode 4 HD .... $209
KTX V.34 modems ....... $130
8Mb EDO SIMMs ......... $ 54
1.7Gb IBM HD .......... $240
S3 764 Trio64 1Mb ..... $ 44
1Mb DRAM upgrade ...... $ 19

And, BTW, those 1.7Gb IBM drives are bloody brilliant.  Randall Lane has
one, and it's one of the fastest HDs I've ever seen in my life.  I kid you
not.

Regards, Bill
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