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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:50:09 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Plextor PX-W2410A Installation/Configuration

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Svobi wrote:

> Now I am facing 2 new things:
> 1) Booting the system I get the following intervention:
>
> ------------------------------------
> Lazy writes are disabled.
> Read ahead is disabled.
> Press enter to continue ...
> ------------------------------------
>
> How can I overcome this stop during the boot phase ?
> I cannot find any entries in the CONFIG.SYS nor in the STARTUP.CMD !
> Where do I need to search and change ?

Once I get ECS partitions set up on the IDE hard drive, I will before long get to installing RSJ there . . . which will be the first
time I've ever done so on non-SCSI hardware. Hope I don't run into this, and if it can be avoided, I'd like to hear about that also.

> My experiments worked well with the CD-R media
> but CD-RW was not rereadable / usable on my 2nd system !
>
> It seems I only need these CD-R medias !!!
> What is the difference of the CD-RW and when do I need / use them ???
> Any advise and hints are very appreciated ;-)

To tell you the truth, I have never bothered with CD-RW under OS/2, even as an experiment. I mean, CD-R is really cheap in bulk
quantities these days, so, even if you burn a few coasters from time to time, it seemed like a waste to mess around with RW. My
experience with RW under Win has been pretty bad. To use it, you needed packet-writing software like IN-CD, which was so
destabilizing to NT-4 that I had to uninstall it. The behavior was better under W2K, and I used it there occasionally on other
folks' systems, but it was still a pain in the rear. I'm not sure how RSJ handles this, but I recall paging through their manual,
where this is discussed. If I'm remembering this right, the RW functionality of RSJ was largely Command Line. You might need to
format or re-format the CD with some utility of theirs, and other functions might be Command Line based also. Check your .PDF manual
from them. It's not obvious, or necessarily accessible from the regular RSJ GUI.

Jordan

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