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[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

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> Actually I hooked up a SCSI CDROM drive to the A3000 and it didn't
> come up on the Desktop so I don't know what to do. What I mainly want
> is a machine I can run 'demos' for old times sake.

A3000 (1990) predated CDROM.  It's certainly not supported natively  
by OS 2.1.  I'm not sure about OS 3.0 or 3.1, but getting CDROM to  
work either requires 3rd party drivers or some fiddling with the OS  
3.x drivers.  Definitely not plug and play (a term that wasn't even  
invented until 5 years after A3000).

I always used some 3rd party driver myself, since I started with 2.1.

You can look around in the Devs and Storage areas if you have 3.x.   
May need to copy something out of Storage and into Devs, then tweak  
the parameters inside.

I never had good luck with later CDROM devices, so I hung onto a  
first generation one that worked OK (but wouldn't read CD-R).

Actually, it wasn't a whole lot easier with Windows 9x either, and a  
lot less transparent.  Needed to muck with cryptic Adaptec libraries  
if you had Adaptec SCSI card.

Good luck, and hope you can find better advice than what I'm offering.

Charles Peterson