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Re: Creative CD620E CD Rom Drive prob :(

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From: Matthew McDonald
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:00
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Greg Wood <g-wood@uiuc.edu> wrote:

>Tony Rae wrote:
>> 
>> G'day all,
>> 
>> I've bought myself a Creative 6X CD Rom drive. My problem is that
>> while I can get it to work with Win95 no worries, I cant for the life
>> of me get it to work in DOS.
>> Here's what it's got in my dosstart.bat file...
>> C:\UTILS\MOUSE.COM /Y
>> C:\SBCD\DOSDRV\CTLOAD C:\SBCD\DOSDRV\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /V
>> /P:1E8,11,3EE

change to /P:170, 15 I think if its on the secondary port and whatever
it is ifs its elswhere. It works that way. Bit of a pain thou

matthew

>> C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /V /:M8
>> 
>> Here's what it says when I try to restart the computer in MS-DOS
>> mode..
>> DEVICE NAME                   :MSCD001
>> TRANSFER MODE          :PROGRAMMED I/O
>> No drives found, aborting installation.
>> Driver initialization failed.
>> 

>I had this same problem, and CDSETUP.EXE will by default assume that the CD is on 
>a slave drive, when mine was on the secondary master.  Choose the Hex that has 
>IRQ 15 if it's secondary like mine.

>Greg

Matthew McDonald            Voice/Data/Fax +61 02 730 457
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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From: matthew@sv.net.au (Matthew McDonald)
Subject: Re: Creative CD620E CD Rom Drive prob :(
Date: 1996/02/26
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