Hi everyone,
I need a SCSI CD-ROM driver for for my system. I had a friend that set it up before and he took the driver off of a WIN98 boot disk then edited the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Well, I can't remember how to do that. I reformatted, cuz it's just a learning computer for me and I wanted to try it for myself and needless to say, failed. Could someone please give a detailed explanation of how to do that. If not, could someone please give a link to an exe file that'll automatically install a SCSI driver? I really want to learn how to do this.
Much Thanks,
Crunk

You need to know the make of the SCSI adapter card, the manufacturer provides the relevent drivers

Ah yes,
Isn't there a universal (or maybe semi-universal) driver for my scsi adapter? Like the one on the win98SE boot disk for example.
x86,
Your name suggests you are either a 286, a 386, or a 486. Which one are you? I've wondered this for quite some time now and this would be the perfect opportunity to ask.
My personal favorite is the 486. It's a 33 mhz powerhouse. A whopping 8 megs of RAM! Not to mention an outrageously gargantuan 500 mb hard drive and the 5.5 floppy drive. It doesn't get any better than that. That was totally off the subject, but I am quite bored. Anyways, please reply back, cuz I'm curious.
Now for the second part of my post.
Ladies and gentleman, here is your windows 9X tip of the day. Boot into safe mode and then go to the command prompt and type the following:
xcopy32 C:\*.* D: /s/e/r/v/k/f/c/h/y = Exact Copy of a hard drive. Tried and true.
Sincerely,
Crunk

I am x86 because it is the general term for the 8086 and later processor family, though really should change that to INTEL 4004 as that is the daddy.....

W98 boot disk does not have generic drivers, it uses Adaptec SCSI drivers as they supply the majority of SCSI adaptors.

You really need to look at the make of card and go the manufacturers website to download the adaptor drivers......

I have two 386 PC's nothing older, but plenty newer to play with, see:
www.mwpms.uklinux.net

As to my favourite I quite like the IBM PS/2 with the MCA bus running PCDOS2000, but if can find one with a hard drive big enough and enough memory would prefer to run OS/2 Warp3. My second favourite is the Compaq Portable with a 5.25 floppy.

I must admit that anything newer is just plain sameness, the above two stand out because they are different.....

There is "Generic SCSI CD-ROM Driver" (e.g. ASPICD.SYS and USBCD.SYS) and "Generic SCSI Hard Disk Driver"(e.g. ASPIDISK.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS), but there is NO such thing as "Generic Driver for SCSI/ASPI Manager" by now. Hence, a specific driver for your SCSI/ASPI Manager must be loaded before the generic SCSI CD/HD driver to make your SCSI CD/HD work properly. For example:

DEVICE=ASPI4DOS.SYS
(The specific driver for your SCSI/ASPI Manager)
DEVICE=DI1000DD.SYS
(The generic SCSI HD Driver)

I have a Adaptec 'SCSI-KIT' with Drivers on my CD-ROM page at PowerLoad that will, after you ID you SCSI Card give you the correct settings for your SCSI CD Drive. But you need to look at your SCSI Card and find out its Model Number First!

Or visit Adaptec Support Download Page at:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverindex.html?sess=no&language=English+US

You still need to ID your Card however!

Try using AIDA32 to identify your card, it will give you a link to the manufacturers website also. Its a programme i use a lot.
http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php

HTH

Woof

Woof,

I do not think a 32bit version of AIDA will work with MS-DOS 7.1 & Windows 3.11 as it is I think a Windows 9x/NT program.

There was a AIDA16 for DOS but I have not looked for it yet.

Found it, Its at the same site:

http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=16

Also try www.hwinfo.com......

I think know what your on about had something simler on my freinds PC

when booting from the windows 98 bootdisk The IDE drivers need to be disabled I dont know why but the IDE drivers would stop the scsi ones from working

edit config.sys and delete all lines contaning "oakcdrom.sys" then save
edit autoexec.bat and delete all the lines that contain "mscdex.exe" then save then reboot

This should hopefully work (worked for me in the past)

post back if it worked or not

oakcdrom.sys does have some problems. Try a better IDE CD-ROM Driver instead of it if you want to get IDE CD-ROM support as well.