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

Does the BIOS recognize the CDRW drive during POST? It sounds like it sees your
hard disk, the CDRW should be seen as well. If not, then make sure the CMOS
parameters are setup to look for a drive on IDE1, it should be set to auto (just
make sure all 4 are set to auto). If this is OK, but POST still does not see the
drive, then the cabling is probably suspect.


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