PLEASE help me with my CDROM drive and DOS!

[de8212]

I have tried to remedy this before but I failed miserably.
I need to access my cdrom in DOS. I have a pioneer dvd player 104s, and a yamaha scsi 4416 cdrw. WHen I boot with the Win98 startup disc in the floppy and choose to "start with CDROM support", everything seems to be OK. I can see my CDRW (which is my G drive) but not my F drive (dvdplayer). Then when I reboot to windows and then sometime later go back into DOS, I can't see my cdrom drive again.
Sooooooo, I just want to be able to use one drive in DOS. I need really detailed instructions on how to do this. Then I may want to go back and get the other drive to be available in DOS. But I just want ONE now. This can't be unobtainable.
PLease, please, please. ANybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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[SloppyB]

I have the same drive and it seems to be that when I boot with a Win98 boot disk I can see my Plextor 40x and my Plextor 12/10/32S but not my DVD. I will check tonight and then let you know.

 

[Dameon]

what SCSI card u got? that's what matters... aspi drivers for your SCSI card.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Basically you need to:

1. Download you dos drivers from the Pioneer site:

Pioneer Drivers

2. Boot to the command prompt

3. Run the exe which will alter your autoexec.bat and config.sys to something like this:

config.sys: DEVICE=C:\CDROM\CDATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD001

autoexec.bat: C:\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001

Note that you will be loading the dos drivers everytime you load windows. Instead REM those two lines and set up a shortcut to load the DOS program.

1. Go to Windows directory and locate the MS-DOS mode for games with ems support and xms support.

2. Create a copy of that shortcut in any folder

3. Follow these instructions:

Dos apps in Windows

4. When you edit the shortcut, make sure you remove the "REM" in the Advance Program settings.

When you are done, you should have a shortcut that reboots your system into dos and automatically runs your program. After your finished with the app, type "exit" and Windows will reboot your system in Win 98 and without the unneeded DOS drivers.

 

[de8212]

Pretty Cool- Everything sounds good but here's an clip of a Warning on the Pioneer site about these DOS drivers
"Installing the MS-DOS drivers below on a Windows-95/98/NT or 2000 system will cause problems as they will conflict with the generic drivers."
Has anyone done this before and it not caused problems? I'm at a loss here. I really need this to work but not sure if I should atemt this and possobly create more problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Help............

 

[Pretty Cool]

That is why I suggested that you REM the statements in your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Then create a shortcut on your desktop to reboot into dos with cd-rom support or launch a dos program.

Example:

1. in config.sys:

REM DEVICE=C:\CDROM\CDATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD001

2. in autoexec.bat:

REM C:\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001


This way Windows will never load your CD-ROM drivers.