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Skriven 2011-09-10 19:21:30 av Dariusz Piatkowski
Ärende: Re: How to un-install a 2nd CD?
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From: "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net>

Hi James!

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:56:31 UTC, "James J. Weinkam" <jjw@cs.sfu.ca> wrote:

> Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:
> > A strange issue for me...my old machine had 2 CD drives (well, 1 CD and 1
DVD),
> > the new one has a single DVD drive...however, the multimedia setup program
> > (G:\MMOS2\STPM.EXE) still shows 2 TABs assigned to them, namely:
> >
> > 1) Compact Disc - default, Drive Y: (this is OK)
> > 2) Compact Disc 2 - Drive P: (this is NOT OK, as no such hardware exists)
> >
> > Now...until now I hadn't really noticed this. I am using Dani drivers
(1.8.5)
> > and only a single Optical drive shows up in the DRIVES folder.
> > However...recently I wanted to create 2 more HPFS partitions and when the
real
> > NEW P: drive was created I started running into some really weird problems.
> >
> > Given that the MMOS2 sub-system still thinks I actually have 2 optical
> > drives...I am thinking the 2nd one does NOT need to be there anymore and to
> > clean things up I should dump it. The question is: HOW???
> >
> > I see the obvious INI files and one of them clearly shows the 2 CD
devices...but
> > is it sufficient to simply edit this file?
> >
> > It's been quite some time since  I had to do this...any hints?
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> I'm fairly sure that the fill MMPM2.INI in boot:\MMOS2 is the file you need
to edit (this is a text 
> file, not an OS2 INI file).
> 
> Here are the relevant sections form the file on my T60:
> 
> ...
> 
> [Drivers]
>   Digitalvideo=IBMDIGVIDPLAYER01,IBMMPEGPLAYER01
>   Speaker=SPEAKER
>   Headphone=HEADPHONE
>   Microphone=MICROPHONE
>   Filter=IBMFILTER01,IBMFILTER02,IBMFILTER03
>   Waveaudio=UNIAUDWAVE01
>   Ampmix=UNIAUDAMPMIX01
>   CDaudio=IBMCDAUDIO01
> 
> ...
> 
> [IBMCDAUDIO01]
>   VERSIONNUMBER=2.0
>   PRODUCTINFO=IBMCDAUDIO
>   MCDDRIVER=CDAUDIO
>   VSDDRIVER=GENCDVSD
>   PDDNAME=CDROM
>   MCDTABLE=MDM
>   RESOURCENAME=CD1
>   DEVICEFLAG=1
>   DEVICETYPE=3
>   SHARETYPE=2
>   RESOURCEUNITS=1
>   RESOURCECLASSES=1,1
>   PARMSTRING=Drive=1,Caps=40000313:000001CA:B:2
>   CONNECTORS=1,6,HEADPHONE,1
>   ALIASNAME=Compact Disc
> 
> If I am correct, the CDaudio line in your Drivers section should read
> 
>   CDaudio=IBMCDAUDIO01,IBMCDAUDIO02
> 
> and you should have an additional section headed [IBMCDAUDIO02].
> 
> Back up the file just in case. Then try deleting the IBMCDAUDIO02 section
entirely and the reference 
> to it on the CDaudio line.

Yup...that is the file I was looking at as well...and it appears to be the only

place I saw a reference to my MIA CD#2...LOL.

Thank you for the confirmation...I had made the change and a re-boot should
tell
if the result is what I'm looking for.



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