Wiley,

I am a true blue Toshiba fan.  I have owned four of them
so far.  Never found anything more rugged or durable.

With only a 360Meg drive, I'm guessing you are working
on something from the 1800 series or so.  Older models
(like your customer's) of Toshiba laptops had specially
customized versions of Windows.  Be very careful about
upgrading the OS.

Secondly, you are __probably__ correct that you need to set
some of the port setting to ACCESS the cd drive, but you will
still need a driver to USE the drive.  In other words, you can
configure the laptop to "see" the disk but it still will not be able
read the disk.  You will need a driver from the CD maker.

Jim Meagher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wiley Pinkerton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 9:44 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Access External CD-ROM with Laptop


> I consider myself a "pretty good" PC tech, but when it comes to DOS, I get
lost.
> I'm trying to access a CD-ROM that is connected to a Toshiba laptop via a
> parallel port connection.  If I remember correctly, I have to write a
batch in
> the autoexec file to access.  The BIOS sees the port, LPT1, I just don't
know
> how to access after that.  My customer wants Win 98 but with a 360 MB hard
drive...
> I don't think so.

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