Hello: I setup a "1998 Pioneer DVD-102 DVD-ROM ATAPI DVD-A02X 0105 CD-ROM Drive" on Primary IDE Cable (middle connector) as "SLAVE" . . . but, when trying to read a CD I get these messages -

In DOS:
"Not ready reading drive D.
Abort? Retry? Fail?"

In WIN3.1:
"There is no disk in drive D.
Insert a disk, and then try again."

Upon bootup - the "busy" light and the "DVD" light (light up) . . . but, the busy light DOESN'T BLINK on and off (as it did on the WIN95 system after a CD became READY).

THE MACHINE:
1993 DELL System 466/L
Intel 486DX2 66DX2 Processor
Phoenix 90486 ROM BIOS PLUS v.1.10 A16 1985-1988
DELL Embedded Diagnostics V1.11
32MB Extended Memory (SIMMS)
245MB Quantum ProDrive LPS Hard Drive
1992 DELL Motherboard A06 (Jumper-33MHz)
1994 Cirrus Logic Video Board
Mitsumi D359T5 3.5 inch, 720KB Floppy Drive
PS/2 Mouse
IBM 8513 Color 12" Monitor (640x480 VGA)
DELL 466/L Setup Utility
(SETUP) Drive0=AUTO
(SETUP) Drive1=Not Installed (tried AUTO)
CPU Speed=66MHz
ONLY - Primary IDE Cable Connection; FDD Cable Connection
Pioneer DVD-102 Drive (set as D:)

Drivers tried:
VIDE-CDD.SYS (worked on WIN95)
ATAPI108
ATAPI307
MSCDEX v2.22
MSCDEX v2.25 (worked on WIN95)

Using a "CABLE SELECT" Primary IDE cable.

D: Prompt shows up in DOS.
D: Drive shows up in WIN 3.1

Using "ATAPI307" Pioneer driver in Config.sys as . . .
C:\ATAPI_CD.SYS /S:1 /D:PIONEER

/S:1 (switch) should be "SLAVE on Primary IDE Cable" . . . but when driver is detected in DOS - it says,
"Inquiry ID=1 : General Fault"

/S:0, /S:2, /S:3 cause a "Timeout Autosensing" message.

Anyone know how to get this system to READ my CDs (using non-audio CD for testing - NO sound card installed).

THANK YOU.

FIXING slight error in initial post:

Under "THE MACHINE:"

Phoenix 80486 (not 90486).

ADDING missing info to initial post:

Under "THE MACHINE:"

MS-DOS 6.22
WINDOWS 3.1

If you just installed Win3.1 and Dos, did you install the driver for the DVD-ROM? Windows 3.1 is not plug-n-play like Windows95, so you have to install the driver.

Hi DRAMO4298:
When I built my AMD K6 500 PC in 2000 I checked the requirements for my 12X DVD drive, drive needed a Pentium 2 300 to run the Win 95 or later DVD software like PowerDVD (needed to play DVD movies). You could get the DVD drive to work in DOS, but don't think there's a Win 3.1 driver, plus don't think you can get DVD software to work right.

Good luck.
Z

Hello TOM & Z FURMAN:

Thanks for the replies.

I don't want to use the DVD aspect of this drive at all - just the CD-ROM aspect to setup the "FIRST AID 95 for WIN 3.1" program which is on a CD.

How do I setup this drive to WORK in DOS?

Right now -

CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:3F6,14 /L:US

AUTOEXEC.BAT:
LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /L:D /M:10

I am using ths SAME drivers I used in my WIN95 system ( VIDE-CDD.SYS & MSCDEX.EXE ).

Pioneer's ATAPI_CD.SYS driver shows an "Inquiry ID=1 : General Fault" (whatever that is ?????)

Thanks for any help getting this working in DOS 6.22 !!!!

Are you shure the DVD-ROM works under Windows 95, even if you Restart In MS-Dos mode?
If so it should work in MS-DOS 6.22 too.

I don't know what driver you have to use for your Pioneer to get it working in DOS.
For Sony DVD-Roms a (general) Sony Atapi driver is available so maybe you can try that one.

I am still looking for sofware (or hardware) to play DVD's in DOS and/or Windows 3.1x too...
There was a pervious posting of a DVD player and in the specs was written Windows 3.1, but I didn't investigate until now....

Hello SOEDESH:

I called "Pioneer Tech Support" and immediately the tech said that if my DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive is not flashing the "busy light" after the inserted CD is READY . . . then the drive itself has the problem.

So I changed to a "HITACHI CDR-8330 24X CD-ROM" - but when the system checked the 8 addresses ( 1F0, 370, etc.) . . . all the addresses said there was NO CDROM drive connected.

Either this HARD DISK'S jumper is set to "SINGLE ONLY" (rather than "MASTER") - or this system is using OTHER I/O ADDRESSES that the Hitachi driver is not looking for.

On the "PIONEER" drive - it was detected, but couldn't READ from the drive, although this drive may be damaged.

On the "Hitachi" - the drive just isn't detected at all, at least not at the 8 (default) I/O addresses searched.

Any ideas from anybody are greatly welcomed.

Thank you.

Hi DRAMO4298:
Another thing you need to make sure of is that your control card is running at ATA 33 or faster (at least my DVD runs at ATA 33). Many older 486 PCs ran much slower speeds, I would say to check this out before spending a lot of time trying to get the DVD drive to work. Installing some CD-ROM drives are also a pain, that's why plug & play was added to Win 95.

Hope you get it to work, good luck.
Z

Well I am about to "give up" on this problem and just wanted to THANK everyone who has tried to help.

More than a week (day and night) on this is about all I can take - tried "almost" everything I heard or read.

Probably need a much OLDER cd-rom drive for this system.

Latest ERROR MESSAGE says, "No Interface Card found." (Trying to find out what a CD-ROM Interface Card is . . . SOUND CARD ??? )

If this is the end of HELPFUL RESPONSES - I guess I'll just have to copy the CD I wanted to install onto 13-(720KB) floppy disks and hope the program ( "First Aid 95" ) will install from the Hard Disk instead.

Really dislike "giving up" on any machine-related problem though. :>)

Hello again:

NEVER GIVE UP !!!!

Some hard drives have to have a PIN on "both" jumpers ( "DS & SP" ) because the "SP" jumper is telling the machine there is a "SLAVE PRESENT."

Now, the "Hitachi CD-ROM" drive has been detected and the MSCDEX driver has been loaded.

This POST is now "closed."