Mail Archives: opendos/1999/02/07/08:00:56
At 11:13 PM 06-02-99 -0800, you wrote:
>You might try switching the zip to the first ide and put the cd on the
>second ide. I haven't used a zip drive before but all my cd drives
>instructions suggest the cd on second ide and the cd lines in config.sys
>and autoexec.bat as the last command.
OK, I'll try that. Now that you mention it I seem to recall reading
something about running a CD-ROM off the second IDE. The new CD-ROM was a
cheap OEM jobbie with no instructions unfortunately.
I may need to make up a new data cable to get it to fit. Bummer...
>also the Novell ndos7 manual says
>that mscdex is not very compatible with ndos, and nwcdex has been
>improved over mscdex and tweaked to fit ndos7.
>
>Since there have been a lot of changes in newdos, opendos, and
>caldera/drdos the problem may be between versions of nwcdex, taskmanager
>and emm386 that you have loaded. you might check caldera's web site to
>get the most current files. they have a package download of all the most
>current changes to all the files.
I'm running 7.02 plus the 7.03 stuff that's available so far. I only used
MSCDEX to see if there was any difference between the two. It uses too much
low memory to be practical - I only have 599k with the best setup I can
manage using NWCDEX. Those Zip drivers eat a lot of memory :-)
>You could also contact mitsumi and see if they have a more current driver
>for your cd-rom drive for use with dos.
I'll try their website.
>Good luck. Bob 'doman' Moss. Logging in from the north side of
>california.
Thanks for the help Bob, much appreciated.
Ray Greene.
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