IBM x31 - Booting from External Cd-rom

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I would like to be able to boot my IBM X31 type 2672 from an external
Freecom CD rom - model Ricoh RW 7040A.

The CD is recognised within windows and functions fine when attached via a
PCMCIA card. In Device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, the
Freecom Cable 2 PCMCIA card is listed .

Howver, when during boot, I go to Access IBM pre-desktop area and in
Information, I see that the CD rom is not listed as an ATA/ATAPI device.
Only the Hard DIsk is listed as a device.

Can anyone tell me how I can get the CD rom added to this list of ATAPI
devices so I can boot from CD. Thanks a lot.

paul

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Hi Joseph,

Thanks a lot for your reply. I appreciate your help. I shall contact freecom
and try and get hold of the necessary drivers.

Cheers
Paul

"C.Joseph Drayton" <kalek1@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:2ope1lFdan2sU1@uni-berlin.de...
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> Hi Paul,
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> You need to load DOS card services for the PCMCIA card, once they are
loaded, you then need to load the actual DOS CDROM drivers.
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> Ciao . . . C.Joseph
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> That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
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> superfly75017 wrote:
> | I would like to be able to boot my IBM X31 type 2672 from an external
> | Freecom CD rom - model Ricoh RW 7040A.
> |
> | The CD is recognised within windows and functions fine when attached via
a
> | PCMCIA card. In Device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, the
> | Freecom Cable 2 PCMCIA card is listed .
> |
> | Howver, when during boot, I go to Access IBM pre-desktop area and in
> | Information, I see that the CD rom is not listed as an ATA/ATAPI
device.
> | Only the Hard DIsk is listed as a device.
> |
> | Can anyone tell me how I can get the CD rom added to this list of ATAPI
> | devices so I can boot from CD. Thanks a lot.
> |
> | paul
> |
> |
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"Alesandra" <rubyebbyrdNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<VC7Wc.30585$9Y6.1003@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Did you ask IBM tech support?
>
> "superfly75017" <superfly75017NOSPAMORELSE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cg8soa$9j9$1@news.tiscali.fr...
> > Hi Joseph,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your reply. I appreciate your help. I shall contact
> freecom
> > and try and get hold of the necessary drivers.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Paul

he's actually asking if he can boot from the CD-ROM...

the answer is:

NO

however, he can boot from a customised win-98 boot floppy that has
dos-mode PC-Card and CD drivers on it P

hope that helps?