cdrom

[rorpan]

Can't get my cd rom to work. It has power but is not recognized in the win 98 device manager. I don't know what make it is but it is a 44 speed. Where and what driver can I use? Any help appreciated
Thanks
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[mastertech01]

They dont need special drivers, windows will load an appropriate atapi driver.. perhaps its not jumpered properly on the IDE connected or the cable is loose or a bent pin. Is it shown in device manager and if so does it show up with an exclamation point? If its not showing even in device manager there is likely a hardware issue.

 

[Zepper]

Occasionally one needs to load the DOS cdrom driver in the Config.Sys file in order to make Win detect the drive. Almost any cdrom driver will usually do, but if you can find a copy of OAKCDROM.SYS, that seems work with many drives. The line you put in config.sys is:
devicehigh=c:\dir\oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001 /V (where c:\dir\ needs to be changed to reflect the actual location of the driver on your system and oakcdrom.sys may need to be changed to match the actual name of the driver.
Put the line near the end of the file. After you reboot, Win should detect the drive. Then you can REM that line out of the config.sys file by putting a ; in front of it as it will no longer be needed.
.bh.