Subj : Re: CD-ROM Access
To   : Lionel Hasselhoff
From : Chip Hearn
Date : Sat May 31 2003 01:25 am

-=> Lionel Hasselhoff wrote to All <=-

 LH> Assuming that this echo is "for DOS", can anyone tell me how to
 LH> access a CD-ROM drive from DOS that is booted from a W95 floppy?

 LH> I made the floppy with the << format a: /s  >> command and did
 LH> not copy any extra files to it.  When I boot from this floppy
 LH> and try to get a dir from the CD-ROM (which was e: under W95)
 LH> I get an "invalid drive" message.

 LH> Do I need to copy extra drivers, configuration files, or
 LH> something else to the floppy in order to access the CD-ROM
 LH> from DOS?  Or is it something else?

 LH> Thanks,

 LH> Lionel


Lionel,

	your asking an oldie... Yes, there are other drivers for CD-rom drives.  Is
this computer an old system, or a more recent brand?  If so, you might do a
search on the internet for a Win98 boot up disk.  This disk will have a generic
CD-rom driver... called oakcdrom.sys.  I'm not promising anything here, but you
could also search for it on the internet and it may do the trick... the command
like would be something to the effect of:

 in your config.sys you'd have 
C:\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscdrom

Making sure the oakcdrom.sys file is in your c:\ directory...

Also, in your autoexec.bat file, you'd have this:

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscdrom

You can find more information about both of these files on the internet...
search www.google.com.

 
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