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David Spencer <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:55:42 -0400
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Thanks, I'll give it a try. To be clear however, the problem wasn't the
drive letters, it was the fact that all of the drives were being associated
with mscd000 by the sbcd.sys line in config.sys. I will give your suggestion
a try though.
Thanks again!


-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Truss <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, October 11, 1998 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Daisychaining SoundBlaster CDROM Drives


>At 08:30 PM 10/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>syntax I'm using has included:
>>
>>device=c:\sb16\drv\sbcd.sys /d:mscd000 /p:220 /n:4    {on one attempt}
>>
>>device=c:\sb16\drv\sbcd.sys /d1:mscd000 /d2:mscd001 /d3:mscd003
/d4:mscd004
>>/p:220 /n:4
>>
>>The mscdex.exe line in autoexec.bat looks like:
>>
>>mscdex.exe /d:mscd000 /d:mscd001 /d:mscd002 /d:mscd003
>>
>I don't know much about this, but I'll bet that you have to have four
>separate lines in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT as shown below, unless the
>"N" parameter tells the system how many drives are to be serviced by that
>driver.
>
>device=c:\sb16\drv\sbcd.sys /d:mscd000 /p:220 /n:4
>device=c:\sb16\drv\sbcd.sys /d:mscd001 /p:220 /n:4
>device=c:\sb16\drv\sbcd.sys /d:mscd002 /p:220 /n:4
>device=c:\sb16\drv\sbcd.sys /d:mscd003 /p:220 /n:4
>
>mscdex.exe /d:mscd000 /L:W
>mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /L:X
>mscdex.exe /d:mscd002 /L:Y
>mscdex.exe /d:mscd003 /L:Z
>
>The lines in the CONFIG.SYS each load and identify a driver for a CD drive.
> The MSCDEX lines associate the drive letter given by the "L" parameter
>with the driver identified by the "D" parameter.
>
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