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Date: | Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:25:32 -0000 |
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This is my 1st email to the list and I'm not really a PC person
(I've spent the last 14 years as a an MVS systems programmer on IBM
mainframes). OK here's the deal.
I have acquired from work (they were going to throw it out) a Compaq
Deskpro XL 6150. It used to run Windows NT V4.0, however before I got it
they wiped the hard drive. So when I got it I created a Windows 98 startup
disk, inserted it and booted the machine. I then ran Fdisk to format the
hard drive as a DOS partition. My problem is that I cannot install Windows
98 onto the machine because it cannot find the CDROM, something to do with
drivers (the CD-Rom opens/closes and spins up OK when you insert a CD and I
know that it was working OK when it was used at work). As a last resort I
opened up the machine to find that the CD-rom is a Compaq CRD-254V and seems
to me to be SCSI attached. I believe that the CD-Rom is set up as a slave of
the hard drive as there is a ribbon cable coming out of the hard drive and
into the CD-Rom and then a ribbon cable coming out of the CD-Rom and plugs
into a SCSI port. What I need if anyone has any are the drivers to get this
CD-Rom working.
Many, Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out as this
is turning out to be a millstone around my neck.
Kind Regards
John Griffin (MVS Systems Programmer)
Tel : (W) - 0207-867-2709
(M) - 07768-557781
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Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
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