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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.

Macca <s1461@kowande.Bond.edu.au> wrote:
>
>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....

I know exactly what you're going through.  I just went through it the past
couple days.  You need the DOS drivers for the CDROM (not the ones used
by windows'95).  You'll have to add a device statement in the config.sys
and also a line in the autoexec.bat loading the mscdex.exe program.

I don't have the details with me since I'm posting this from work, and
am on a Unix box at the moment, but I'm sure someone else can help you in
greater detail.

You'll probably want to make a special floppy boot disk for when you want
to play DOS CD's so you don't drag down win'95 with the DOS drivers.

I'm not sure about your system, but I had to also fix up for getting my
sound card and mouse to work in DOS mode too.

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hey chris -
to your problem - 

Win 95 does not load mscdex on startup - i have problems 
where the name (see below)
in dosstart.bat - (in windows directory) there should be a 
line loading mscdex.exe and refering to a device name. Is 
this name the same in config.sys when loading the driver. 
as it should be ?
hope this help 
mark