CD-ROM driver install problem!

[AllmanBros]

I installed a never used Sony CDU311 CD-ROM drive in an old GW2000 P5 Pentium 120Mhz system...formatted HD, installed Dos 6.22, then installed drivers for the CD-ROM...won't work! Supposed to make changes to autoexec.bat and config.sys files, doesn't do that! I'm not going to use Windows on this box, I want to "play" with it, learn stuff, etc...I just need access to the cd from Dos! Any ideas? The install program really "STINKS"!!!
Thanks in advance....

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[AllmanBros]

Well well!!! I got a generic driver, and now I can access the cd, drive D:
BUT...with a cd in the drive, I log to D: and do a "dir" and now I get:
CDR101: not ready reading drive D:
abort, retry, fail
What in the heck is this?
I know the drive works because when I first put it in the box, I used my Win98 disk to boot and I installed Win98...no problems...
Anyway, what is this, and why is it happening??
Thanks so much for any and all help!!!
Michael
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[BadThad]

Which IDE channel did you put it on? Do you have the jumper set to "master"? Should be on secondary IDE as master on a single hard drive/single CDROM drive system. Try a NEW IDE cable. Also, maybe that generic driver is NOT cutting the cheese man. I've seen those give the appearance of working until you type DIR. I would seek the proper DOS driver. You could also try a Win98 OEM boot disk, I found these are excellent with the oakcd.sys driver, it's worked on EVERY CDROM I've tried. NOW...this is the OEM disk, NOT the one that creates a RAM DRIVE. I hate that...lol.

 

[DJFuji]

id suggest booting with a win9x disc to see if the drive physically works correctly, and if it does, then try manually loading Microsoft CD Extensions (mscdex.exe) to initialize the drive.