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03-13-2009
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| | Getting DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to Recognize the CD Drive How do I get DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to recognize the CD drive? Normally with these OS's one would install drivers for the CD drive that load during the boot process. However, even with a readable CD in the drive, and specifying the VPC for this installation to use the physical drive, when I reboot the VPC, the drive spins up, but when DOS tries to load the driver (MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /M:15), I get an error message that the drive cannot be detected. Thanks. -- Don |
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03-13-2009
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| | Re: Getting DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to Recognize the CD Drive On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:45:03 -0700, Don <don.wolfe@xxxxxx (donotspam)> wrote: Quote: >How do I get DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to recognize the CD drive? Normally with >these OS's one would install drivers for the CD drive that load during the >boot process. However, even with a readable CD in the drive, and specifying >the VPC for this installation to use the physical drive, when I reboot the >VPC, the drive spins up, but when DOS tries to load the driver (MSCDEX.EXE >/D:MSCD001 /V /M:15), I get an error message that the drive cannot be >detected. > >Thanks. like: DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /V -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ |
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03-14-2009
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| | Re: Getting DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to Recognize the CD Drive I forgot to mention that I also have the following line in config.sys: DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\SBCD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:220 and in autoexec.bat I have the following line: C:\SB16\DRV\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /M:15 These entries were made by Sound Blaster's CD-ROM installation program. Should I be using a different set of CD-ROM drivers? -- Don "Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:45:03 -0700, Don <don.wolfe@xxxxxx > (donotspam)> wrote: > Quote: > >How do I get DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to recognize the CD drive? Normally with > >these OS's one would install drivers for the CD drive that load during the > >boot process. However, even with a readable CD in the drive, and specifying > >the VPC for this installation to use the physical drive, when I reboot the > >VPC, the drive spins up, but when DOS tries to load the driver (MSCDEX.EXE > >/D:MSCD001 /V /M:15), I get an error message that the drive cannot be > >detected. > > > >Thanks. > You also need to load the CDROM driver in the CONFIG.SYS. Something > like: > DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /V > > -- > Cheers, > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP > http://vpc.essjae.com/ > |
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03-14-2009
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| | Re: Getting DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to Recognize the CD Drive Steve... I just answered my own question. I found "generic" CD-ROM drivers on a Win 95 CD-ROM setup disk that appear to work just fine. So evidently the Sound Blaster CD-ROM drivers I installed aren't compatible. -- Don "Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:45:03 -0700, Don <don.wolfe@xxxxxx > (donotspam)> wrote: > Quote: > >How do I get DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to recognize the CD drive? Normally with > >these OS's one would install drivers for the CD drive that load during the > >boot process. However, even with a readable CD in the drive, and specifying > >the VPC for this installation to use the physical drive, when I reboot the > >VPC, the drive spins up, but when DOS tries to load the driver (MSCDEX.EXE > >/D:MSCD001 /V /M:15), I get an error message that the drive cannot be > >detected. > > > >Thanks. > You also need to load the CDROM driver in the CONFIG.SYS. Something > like: > DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /V > > -- > Cheers, > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP > http://vpc.essjae.com/ > |
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03-14-2009
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| Vista Ultimate x64 | Re: Getting DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to Recognize the CD Drive It's possible that the Soundblaster driver doesn't support your hardware. You can download a more generic one from the web, but don't ask me where... ara |
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03-17-2009
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| | Re: Getting DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1 to Recognize the CD Drive Don wrote: Quote: > DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\SBCD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:220 cards. IIRC it uses a proprietary pin layout and transfer protocol, which is incompatible to E-IDE. -- Robert Riebisch Bitte NUR in der Newsgroup antworten! Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY! |
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