Re: as400 cd rom

["System Support Products, Inc." <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:41 PM -0400 4/27/00, MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
>>  From: list_receiver@csiltd.co.uk (Mike Buglass)
>>
>>   I think you are getting mixed up with the System 36 virtual machine. This
>>   requires you to map the CD drive to either T1 or TC in order to use it
>
>This was true ALSO for the AS/400 side.
>It was true for the entire hardware.
>When the port was mapped to the tape drive, we could not use the CD Rom.
>When the port was re-mapped to the CD Rom, we could not use the tape drive
>It was one or the other, irrespective of SSP or OS/400

    Very odd. I have a 436 as well, and I've had two tape drives and 
the CD running all at the same time with no problems whatsoever. 
I've never had to "map a port" on the OS/400 side, and don't even 
think that I would know how.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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