Weird detecting problem. Please help. *Solved*

[Jgtdragon]

Hi fellow techers,
Have a weird problem on my friend's system. He got a scsi cdr. Windows detects it, but would not assign it a drive letter. He is running Win98.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Pederv]

Do you mean it shows up in the device manager, but not in my computer?

 

[Jgtdragon]

Pederv,
Exactly. Go into dos and it sees it as well, but in my computer it doesn't appear. It just detect the cd-rom, but not the cdr. hmmmm

 

[esung]

How old is that SCSI CDR? the real old burner couldn't function as reader, but I sorta doubt this is your case..

and do it has any SCSI related driver installed under DOS?

 

[bacillus]

out of curiousity, does the pc have a zip drive?

 

[Jgtdragon]

bacillus,
No ZIP drive install.

esung,
This CDR is quite old. Its a JVC XR-w2010, the scsi controller is Buslogic.

This is driving me nuts even tho its not my system. Updated the drivers for the controller and Windows98 still doesn't assign a drive letter.

 

[Jgtdragon]

Solved!
Thanks esung!
After reading your post, I install Adaptec EZ-cd creator and it finally got assign a letter.

Thanks all who posted for your help too!

This forum is like a family helping each other out!.

John