kobushi wrote:
The CDISC2 driver only reroutes CD-DA audio, so it's not very useful. Obviously you can't boot from the external CD drive, because you have to boot from the hard drive/floppy first to load the CDISC2 driver.
That translation looks OK, except the part you already noticed:
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CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=\DOS\CDDRV.SYS <---; これらは必ずCDISC2.SYS
DEVICE=\DOS\CDISC.SYS <---; より前に書いて下さい。
DEVICE=CDSD.SYS /I:5 /D:SCSI_CD <---;
This means that CDDRV.SYS, CDISC.SYS, and CDSD.SYS must all be loaded before CDISC2.SYS.
The auction doesn't say much. It's a SCSI board for the original model of the FM Towns. Owner says it was working before he put it into storage, and hasn't tested it since.
Either way, from everything I've read, it is not possible to boot from an external CD-ROM drive.
OK, thanks.Translating this phrase with Google I thought it was possible to boot form this SCSI card but I was wrong:
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初代タウンズ用です。 専用スロットに挿すSCSIボードです。 初代機を使われてる方必須アイテム!
The problem is that FM-TOWNS use a proprietary SCSI controller, the internal CD-ROM may appear as a regular IDE unit since it has a 40 PIN connector but it's not IDE and it's neither a SCSI one!
Other possibility would be to copy the entire content of a CD on the HDD and launch the game from it like we do with X68000 floppis.