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Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:02:04 -0700
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At 04:39 PM 02/21/2000 , Sylvie De Roy wrote:
>I have a 4X Panasonic Matshita CR574B CD-ROM (bought in 1995, it came with
>the original system configuration).  Using a Windows98 Boot disk I cannot
>install Windows98.  I get following error message: Device not found no
>OEMCD001.
>
>I have the original drivers installation diskette for the CD-ROM device so
>in DOS I copied the content of this floppy disk to my newly formatted C: HD
>and it created a ATACR directory.
>
>I proceeded with copying the cr_atapi.sys file contained in the C:ATACR
>directory on to the Windows98 boot disk.
>
>I then opened the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file and copied and appended its content to
>the autoexec.bat file on the Windows98 boot disk, editing the last line to
>read DEVICE=A:.
>
>I also copied the content of C:CONFIG.SYS file to the config.sys file on the
>Windows98 boot disk and modified the device path to read as follows:
>LASTDRIVE=Z
>DEVICE=A:\ATACR\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD000 /Q
>
>I then inserted the Windows98 CD in the CD-ROM device drive and rebooted.
>No luck: I got an error message indicating that a drive overflow error was
>caused.


In reading your error message of:
   "Device not found no OEMCD001"

Then reading your CD driver statement with  "/D:MDSC000"

I believe the issue is your drivers are not using the proper configuration statement.

Understand that both the CD driver in  your Config.sys and the operating
system driver in your Autoexec.bat must have the same drive designation,
this is the  /D:  switch.  Both statements must have the same one, no matter
what it is...  I always use:   /D:nospin   (this way I know I added it).

So...   your Config.sys should have this line:
   DEVICE=A:\ATACR\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD000 /Q
   (only if your CR_ATAPI.SYS driver is in the directory A:\ATACR)

Your Autoexec.bat should have this line to correspond:
    A:\mscdex.exe /D:MSCD000

Note that both your CD Rom driver: CD_ATAPI.SYS  in the config.sys
and your operating system driver:  mscdex.exe  in the autoexec.bat
are linked by the "/D:" switch of:  MSCD000  linking the two drivers
to the one drive.

Remember that the "/D:" switch can have anything as long as it is the same
for both, such as:   /D:CD01   or  /D:01   that is not important...  what is important
is that they are identical.

     Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group

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