Your windows startup disk doesn't have the right drivers.  It should be able
to load any scsi cdrom if it was created right.  I would try making or
obtaining another startup disk.  However, if you do need cdrom drivers, you
typically get them from the adapter website, not the cdrom manufacturer
website.  Adaptec, for instance, will have drivers for installing all kinds
of scsi peripherals with their scsi adapter cards.  Since compliance with
scsi standards is pretty much a given among different devices, any
appropriate driver will do, that's why I'm surprised the setup disk didn't
work.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Griffin, John (London) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:26 AM

        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.

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