John,
This being a COMPAQ i assume you cannot access the BIOS and set it to boot from the CD ( don't know the exact vintage of the 6150 model) if you can do that.
If not , you need to find the CD rom drivers and add them to your C drive and have config.sys/autoexec.bat modified accordingly to load the driver at startup then you will be able to  read the CR ROM.

HTH


  
Gerrit  Houweling
Configuration Management
LITTON SYSTEMS CANADA
Atlantic Facility

Tel. (902)-873-2000, ext. 6137
Fax (902)873-2176

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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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