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no drive letter for cdrom

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Name: garofus
Date: June 4, 2003 at 15:49:18 Pacific
Subject: no drive letter for cdrom
OS: dos 6.22
CPU/Ram: amd k6 450

Comment:

I removed a 5 1/4 inch drive from this system and installed a LG cdrom from another computer (downloaded drivers from LG). The IDE cable for hard disc had a second connector but wouldnt reach so I got another cable and plugged it into IDE 2 on motherboard. Set cdrom jumper on master, went into cmos setup and set secondary master to cdrom. Designated drive B as not installed. Problem: Computer still recognizes B as a valid drive and I cannot access cdrom..(cannot determine that it has a drive letter..tried switching to every drive letter in the alphabet with no success). My autoexec.bat file contains this line" c:\cdrom\msdex.exe /d:mscd000 /l:d" but still no drive D..Help, anyone??????? Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: wizard-fred
Date: June 4, 2003 at 19:19:39 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Did you install the driver in CONFIG.SYS?
ex
device=cdrom.sys /D:mscd000

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Response Number 2

Name: garofus
Date: June 5, 2003 at 07:13:24 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Config.sys contains this line:
devicehigh=c:\cdrom\gscdrom.sys /d:mscd00 /v

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Response Number 3

Name: wizard-fred
Date: June 5, 2003 at 07:39:15 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Unless you made an error in the messages, your cd drive names are not the same.
config.sys mscd00
autoexec.bat mscd000

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Response Number 4

Name: garofus
Date: June 6, 2003 at 13:52:08 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Sorry, that was a typo...config.sys actually reads mscd000. Sorry, ,any other ideas?
Thanks for your response..

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