Re: CDROM not detected in DOS mode

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From: Larry Youngblood
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 00:00

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In <Pine.ULT.3.91.960208200851.19002A-100000@sand> Macca
<s1461@kowande.Bond.edu.au> writes: 
>
>
>hi guys...
>
>I've got a 6speed Creative lab IDE CDrom and 'im quite happy with it
but 
>i've got one problem that prevents me of using pre-win95 programs. The

>CD-rom is detected by Win95 without any problem but when I reboot to
get 
>into DOS mode, it is not! All the drivers are correctely installed and

>properly configured but it 's like the f....... driver ain't even
present 
>inside the computer! all it tells me is : "No drives found" which
comes 
>just after the message of initialization of the CD-rom drivers....And
of 
>course, in the absence of any detected CD-rom, it aborts the drive 
>initialization, which prevents me of using any DOS CD-rom since I
can;t 
>access the drive in that mode!
>
>HELP!! please....
>
>Christophe
>
You have to edit your dosstart.bat file and enter the command lines to
enable the CD Rom to run in dos.

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From: larryty@ix.netcom.com(Larry Youngblood )
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Date: 1996/02/09
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