> Last night I put together a new system; Duron 700, Epox 8KTA2 mainboard, 128 M
> RAM, WD 30 M HD, Panasonic FD, and a Ricoh CD-RW  8x 8x 32x model MP 7083A.
> Everything went smoothly and I was able to boot from a win98 floppy. I do not
> have a read only CDROM.
>
> I Fdisked the drive then rebooted and selected a setup (1) where the win98
> boot would automatically set up the system for CDROM support so I could load
> win98. This was unsuccessful, I could not access the CD-RW. The HD is on IDE0
> using an 80 conductor ribbon cable and the CD-RW is on IDE1 using a 40
> conductor ribbon cable. I did not check the jumper settings for the CD-RW and
> its possible that I have a bad cable or installed it upside down.
>
> When I get home from work I will check the CD-RW jumper settings, cable
> installation, use a different cable  etc. What my question is, can this CD-RW
> be set up to be recognized at the dos prompt and if so where  can I get the
> drivers for it? Also what would the config.sys, autoexec.bat file entries look
> like (the drive would be H - C,D,E and F are the HD partitions and G is the
> RAM drive set up by the win98 boot disk).
>

Anthony Power <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

As a follow up. I replaced the cable and still I cannot read a CD. The bios properly identifies the CD-RW. I removed this CD-RW and installed a 4x CDROM and this was successful. I loaded windows, reconnected the CD-RW, checked Control Panel > System> Device Manager and the CD-RW was again properly identified by Win98; but I still could not read  a CD. So my guess is the CD-RW is bad. I'm going to have it tested at work.

Regards,

Anthony Power

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