Dave,

If you are absolutely positively sure that you spelled the D:/xxxxxxx
exactly the same in both statements.......then  the problem is with the
DEVICE= statement in the config.sys file.

Either the driver itself is the wrong one or bad -- recopy it to the hard
drive or download
the universal driver from our web site         www.nospin.com
OR
You do not have the IRQ and/or I/O addresses set correctly.  Different
drivers use different formats for this.  The SBIDE.SYS uses /P:xxx,yy
(xxx= the I/O address yy=IRQ address)

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Perry <[log in to unmask]>



>Thanks for the reply Jim. I've checked those lines in autoexec.bat and
>config.sys and they are both the same in regard to the MSC line.
>
>
>>There are three key elements to getting a CD-ROM to work in the DOS
>>environment.
>>
>>!. There must be a "DEVICE=......" statement in CONFIG.SYS for the CD
>>driver.
>>   for example:    "DEVICE=SBIDE.SYS D:/MSCD0001"
>>2. The MSCDEX command must be in AUTOEXEC.BAT
>>3. Both 1&2 above must "point" to the same device name (spelling
counts).
>>    It's the  "/D:device" part in both statements.
>>
>>>Heres one for 50 points.
>>>.....after rebooting I get a message quoting the
>>>CDrom device line from autoexec.bat and a statement that there are no
>>>device drivers loaded for the cdrom.
>>
>>
>
>

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