Soliciting OFW testers

Chris Marshall jns-cmarshall at comcast.net
Fri Dec 12 09:17:11 EST 2008


Mitch Bradley wrote:
> 
> Secondly, if you have a USB CD-ROM drive, you could help me by testing 
> it with OFW.  To do so:

Will an external DVD-RW drive work or only a CD?

> a) Remove all other USB storage devices (FLASH keys and the like) from 
> the XO
> b) Put a CD-ROM that has an ISO-9660 filesystem (the standard CD-ROM 
> filesystem) in the drive
> c) Plug the drive into the XO
> d) Power on and get to the ok prompt in the usual way
> d) Type
> 
>     ok dir u:\
> 
> If it works, you'll see a directory listing, perhaps after several 
> seconds (CD-ROM drives can take a long time to spin up and read the 
> disk's table of contents).  If it doesn't work, it might hang, or it 
> might say "Can't open directory" and perhaps even "Can't open disk label 
> package".



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