Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990208014423.00973b20@es.co.nz> X-Sender: raygr AT es DOT co DOT nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:44:23 +1300 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, domanspc AT juno DOT com From: Ray Greene Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM & TaskMgr In-Reply-To: <19990206.231318.-27181.1.DOMANSPC@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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.