You may need to install the PCMCIA drivers first.  See if you can find the
drivers for you laptop at

http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=pcmcia+drivers&tg=dl-2001&search=+
Go%21+

They have drivers for the PCMCIA COROM drives as well.


----- Original Message -----
From: "garry bassett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: INSTALLING CDROM DRIVERS


> Hi Tom,
>      thanks for the reply,i tried to use the win 98 and ME boot disks but
> they dont load correct drivers for this cdrom drive,when it goes through
the
> process of starting with cdrom support it gives an error message as
follows:
> device name:MSCD001
> no drives found
> PCI READ CONFIGURATION FAILURE
> aborting installation
> I looked on the internet and found information which says the win boot
disk
> load generic drivers which are ok for most ide drives but pcmcia external
> drives need more specific drivers loading.i have a driver disk for the
cdrom
> drive and explored this on my other pc it has drivers on it for win 3.1 is
> it possible it install these from an A:prompt before an o/s is installed
on
> a formatted hard drive if so what is the command to do this?the drive and
> pcmcia card work ok as i tested them on another laptop.
> The laptop is a Toshiba T2130CS quite old and only has a floppy drive but
i
> dont have any win o/s on floppies,so without being able to use this cdrom
> drive i cant get an o/s back on to the laptop.
> If anyone knows how i can do this it would be greatly appreciated...
> Garry
>
>
> >From: Tom Simpson <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] INSTALLING CDROM DRIVERS
> >Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:27:44 -0500
> >
> >You should be able to use a Windows®98 or Windows®ME startup disk to do
> >what you want to do. Either of those disks will load a generic set of
> >drivers for your CD-ROM drive, so that you will be able to reinstall
> >Windows (any version) on you computer.
> >
> >Here's a couple links, so you can downoad a Windows98 startup disk. Save
> >it to the hard drive, then run the executable.
> >
> >http://dos.li5.org/DOWNLOAD/TECHW0RM.ZIP
> >
> >http://dos.li5.org/IMGS/WIN98SE.EXE
> >
> >    Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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