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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