Travis Neal wrote:

> I recently purchased a Pacific digital 4xX2xX8x cdr/rw.  This device ddint come with any drivers.  I can load the generic drivers (thanks to this group's archives) and that will alllow it to read cd's without any problems.  However, I cannot run some programs (mainly games which require 32 bit drivers.)  I have searched the web site up and down for some drivers and I cannot find any.

I have never seen any CD-RW driver comes with driver disk. As I know, they all use same driver as CD-ROM provided by Windows. (if you look carefully, the only difference is displayed drive name which is taken from hardware)

>  I also cannot find who made the drive either. Windows isn't any help either.  The drive isnt even detected in the Add New Hardware applet.

Are you using windows 95/98? If so, windows shouldn't have any problem to detect the CD-RW.
Can you try this:
Add "REM" in front of any line in you config.sys and autoexec.bat which refered to CD-ROM. (to do so, you can click "start" -> "run", then type "msconfig", click "ok"); shut down computer; reboot computer, now windows should detect and install driver for it.

I've seen strange problem when 16bit driver is installed, I have a question wanted to ask here:
I understand that AGP card requires at least win95 with USB support to operate (or NT4 with SP3). once I've loaded DOS driver for CD-ROM on a win95a machine, after that, customer's AGP (i740) card worked without any win95 patch. How could this happen? AGP video worked on win95a! (whole story is quite long, it was a customer from hell)

Jun Qian

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