hello everyone. i'm quite new here,but i found this forum very useful,and i wanted to say thanks to everyone. i want to enable to use both my IDE cdroms and usb hard disk+usb cdr/w as well. I enabled the usb hd & cdr/w, but when i try to assign drive letter to the ide cdroms they are trying to get the same drive letters (e and f) that are already taken by the usb devices.i'm using the"USBASPI.SYS from panasonic to enable my usb devices,and the OAKCDROM.SYS to enable the ide cdroms(separately they are working fine).can someone tell me how can i assign a drive letter to all the devices without an irq conflict,or a parameter that i can use to specify a drive letter to the usb devices so they will be recognized as drive letters G and H. thanks from advance. karpazoo

If possible please can you post the Version of Standalone DOS you are using, how many drives you have in total and the contents of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT

i'm using pc-dos(this disk was originally norton ghost 2003 boot disk).my config.sys and autoexec.bat NOW intent to load only drivers that concern usb devices. [config.sys] DOS=HIGH,UMB lastdrive=Z device=HIMEM.SYS rem The following line loads Panasonic's universal USB- controller driver devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /v /w /e rem the following is an aspi mass storage driver for usb- connected HDs and compactflash memory cards devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS rem The following one loads CD-ROM driver devicehigh=USBCD.SYS /d:USBCD001 [autoexec.bat] @echo off REM the following line adds a drive letter to the usb cd(rom/r/rw) mounted LH MSCDEX /d:USBCD001 i want to enable to use two ide cdroms,one USB hard drive and one USB dvd-rw.if you need more information just write it down. thank you.

Try this from MSG 14719 in DOS forum. DI1000DD.SYS ASPI Disk Driver v2.00 from Novac Co., Ltd device=[{path}]DI1000DD.SYS [/hN] [/dL] If USBASPI.SYS detects multiple mass storage devices on multiple host adapters, use /hN Host, to specify which host adapter to map drive letter(s), where N would be the 3rd number set reported for the USB controller in USBASPI.SYS with the /v switch. To specify the starting drive letter for detected mass storage devices, use /dL Drive_letter, where L is the first assigned letter for this host adapter Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.

i realy tried to understand what you wrote but i didn't.i'm not experienced with dos at all.lets say that i want to assign the H letter to the hard drive and the I letter to the cdrom,can you please write the DI1000DD.SYS switches for me?.the other thing that i don't understand is how its going to help with an irq conflict i'm having, because as soon as i use the ide cdrom oak driver they will assign the same resources as the usb devices.thanks from advace.

Lets get down to basics, you have used the PC-DOS from GHOST, ie Windows Software, this version of DOS uses the base files licensed from IBM and incorporated is limited FAT32 support, it is buggy and would not recommend using it, and is not even remotely a Standalone DOS, it was specifically written to support Windows Software and has been used by both Iomega and Symantec. Yes it is obvious you are trying to use DOS to re-install GHOST IMAGES, and you have no conception of how diffferent STANDALONE DOS ie "MS-DOS6.xx and compatibles" are to Windows, whilst drive letter assignment can be different. I would highly recommend you use Linux/Windows Software like ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

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