You can try to re-attach the new CDROM -> add/remove new hardware, now can
you see the sound card IDE interface in Device manager? if not, you may need
either reload win95 or change another sound card, not all old sound card can
attach IDE device, if win95 cannot detect the on-card IDE interface, then it
won't work most likely.
**You don't need config.sys and autoexec.bat to run CDROM attached to sound
card, win95 will take care of it as long as the interface shows up in device
manager.**

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Griffiths" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 1:38 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Old CD ROM


I'm struggling with an old CD ROM that plugs into a sound card for the
interface rather than through the IDE. When I loaded Win95 on this machine,
I temporarily attached a modern CD ROM to help speed the install, it was as
one would expect, attached to the IDE controller on the motherboard. The
problem is that now that I have detached the new CD ROM and reattached the
old one to its sound card, Windows fails to find it. Add and Remove new
hardware doesn't find it either. Can someone tell me how to resolve this.
The unit does work. It is a Creative CD ROM and plugs into a card from the
same makers with model number CT2260. I downloaded drivers for the sound
card okay, but am lost as to what to do with the cd ROM. For those
interested the Config.sys has "Device = C:\WINDOWS\Himem" and Autoexec.bat
has " rem - by Windows Setup - C:WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /V". I
take it that Windows remarked the Autoexec entry because it failed to see
the device, once the newer CD ROM drive was removed.

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