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WIN98SE not seeing SCSI CD ROM

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by pconsite

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I have 3 CD ROM drives attached to my machine. The machine is an IBM PC Server 320 (133Mhz) RAID with 6 2.5 GB drives which run off of a MYLEX DAC960 RAID card.

The first CD ROM came with the machine it is a SONY CDU-76S. The other two, Cyberdrv CD-ROM TW-240S and HP CD-Writer 6020, are external attached to an additional SCSI card and are daisy chained with a tape drive on the end of the chain.

All went well with the initial installation from the Sony then when I powered up the other two drives the Sony disappeared from the device manager and only the HP CD-Writer was there. When I press the refresh button in Device manager the Cyberdrive appears.

I took the REM, that Windows put in, out of the Autoexec.bat and then rebooted and the Device Manager stated that the Cyberdrive existed but what was really happening was that the Sony became active.

I'd like for all three drives to be active.

I initially installed IBM DOS 7.0 and used the command "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /M:10" in the Autoexec.bat for the
Sony CD ROM to be recognized by the system.

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by dmiles

There seems to be a problem with the contoller identifying which of the cd rom's is set to be the master or slave and you may have to set the jumpers to master/slave.the bios settings may not be set to the specified settings.Check bios settings and

by cajundon

Hi,

I would need more information from you, to help resolve your problem.

What Operating System and Version, and Network System and Version are you running?

You do not need to load any Config.sys or Autoexec.bat files for Windows, unless you are running some programs in pure Dos Mode, and not within Windows Dos Mode.

Is the last device in your SCSI chain properly terminated?

You could also be running into conflicts with IRQ's and Ports Addresses.

What little I know about your system, I can suggest you do the following things. Make sure you have the latest BIOS upgrade, and all the latest Drivers for your hardware. One good source is at
http://windrivers.com

I also suggest that you get the full verison of Windows 98SE, to get the cleanest installation, that corrects a lot of bugs of Windows 95 and Windows 98, both Version A and B. I do not suggest that you upgrade to Windows ME or Windows 2000, because it is still full of bugs, like all of Microsoft newest Operating Systems, when they first start shipping it out.

Please e-mail me with what information you can about your system, so I can try to reslove your problem.

Good luck and have a great day.

Don Thibodaux, Independent Computer Technology Consultant.

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