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CD-ROM Driver problem Toshiba 3301A
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Author: John Casavant
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:04
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I am trying to attach a Toshiba 3301A CD-ROM to my NEC 486/33 EISA PC, but	
can not get it to work in DOS.  I have an ADAPTEC 1740 SCSI controller in the
4th EISA slot at D000H, all the drivers seem to load, but when I try to	
access the CD-ROMs logical drive the PC hangs. The controller is SCSI id 7,
and the CD-ROM is SCSI id 2.  Windows 3.1 can access the CD-ROM through 
media player(eject disk, etc), but filemanger choaks.

In my config.sys I load:
DEVICE=ASPIEDOS.SYS /d
DEVICE=ASWCDTSH.SYS /D:CDROM
LASTDRIVE=K:

and in my aytoexec.bat I load:
MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM /M:10 /L:I

The ASWCDTSH.SYS says it is for a toshiba 3201B, but is the only toshiba
driver with the ASW-410 drivers.
The Toshiba CD-ROM is a HP A1999A (Hewlett Packard OEM), and came with the 
Appollo 843 workstation.

Heres the strange thing....
I have a pre-beta release on Microsoft Windows-NT, and the install from the
CD-ROM worked fine, and I can access the CD-ROM when in Win-NT.  
After I tried to get the drive to in DOS and Windows 3.1, I gave the NT install 
a try and found out it worked with the CD-ROM drive.  The AHA17XX.SYS driver
that shipped with Windows NT will not work in DOS.

What am I doing wrong here??? 


John Casavant
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