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More info?)
After much playing around finally got it sorted...located the DOS drivers etc
etc
Thanks for your help!
"Jeff Richards" wrote:
> You need the DOS drivers, not the W95 drivers. You have the correct format,
> but SYMC8XX.MPD would not be the file to use - it would be the DOS driver
> for the CD (which would probably have a .SYS filename extension).
>
> However, this does not implement SCSI support. Unless your SCSI controller
> includes DOS support built in to its BIOS, you will also need DOS drivers
> for the SCSI controller. There will be an equivalent command (referencing a
> SYS file) in config.sys to provide this support. The SCSI controller and the
> CD-ROM are two separate devices, each requiring at least one driver. So
> your files will look more like -
>
> autoexec.bat...
> MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0000 /L:E
>
> Config.sys...
> DEVICE=SCSIDRVR.SYS
> DEVICE=CDROMDRV.SYS /D:MSCD0000
>
> The names are invented, but the format will be similar. The SCSIDRVR line
> will probably have some options, and there might be an additional line to
> install an ASPI driver, and there could even be an extra SCSI BIOS support
> driver.
>
> "thetruck" <thetruck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4582B25E-26FA-4157-8670-69F8B15F85FB@microsoft.com...
> > yeah, I guess this is my main problem...i don't really know what entries i
> > need in here or what to change...
> >
> > i was told that the box previously ran ok with nt using a symbios 810 scsi
> > driver, so i downloaded a win95 version (ie symc8xx.mpd) from
> > driverguide.com.
> >
> > files as follows:
> >
> > autoexec.bat...
> > REM MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L
> > MSCDEX.EXE /D:SYMC8XX /L:E
> > e:
> > cd \win95
> > REM oemsetup /k "a:\drvcopy.inf"
> > oemsetup /k "a:\SYMC8xx.inf"
> >
> >
> > Config.sys...
> > DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
> > BUFFERS=20
> > FILES=60
> > REM DEVICE=SAMPLE.SYS /D:OEMCD001
> > DEVICE=SYMC8XX.MPD /D:SYMC8XX
> > LASTDRIVE=Z
>
>
>
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