[LIB] HELP - Install CD-RW Driver
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:53:06 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP - Install CD-RW Driver Hello Libretterati, Could really use some help trying to get my new external CD-RW working...very frustrated right now... It has PCMCIA card (or USB interface) CD-RW made by CenDyne. Came with both interface cables and a floppy disk with drivers. I may have screwed things up trying to install drivers I tried installing using some sort of DOS app that was already installed by the previous Libretto owner. The INSTALL.EXE app did run in the DOS app window and then I rebooted, but when I plug in the CD-RW drive it froze up the Libretto. After rebooting, tried doing restart in MS-DOS mode, but can't seem to get the INSTALL.EXE to run. Think it's been too many years since I had my ol' 386 and can't remember the right DOS commands ;-) Anyway, below is the ReadMe file on the floppy disk. Unfortunately, that's all the info I have with the drive. It does refer to the INSTALL.EXE file just before section I.2. Also, I do get error messages I.2.b and I.2.e during startup. Win95 is on Libretto now. Wanted to get CD-RW drive working so I could upgrade to Win98, install other apps from CD's, etc. Do I need to do something first to 'undo' my first install attempt with that DOS app? What DOS command should I use to run the INSTALL.EXE file? Any other suggestions? Thanks! Mark Silicone Valley Libretterati I PCMCIA/IDE CD-ROM solution for DOS I.1 Device Driver and Utility Usage -- PICC.EXE (PCMCIA/IDE Adaptor Card Services Client) -- This driver supports the PCMCIA 2.1+ Card/Socket services specifications. It is mandatory to load this driver before using the PICD.EXE device driver. Installation Format: DEVICE=[drive:][path]PICC.EXE [/P:xxx,yy] where [/P:xxx,yy] specifies the I/O port base and interrupt number that the Adaptor Card Services tries to allocate for this card in default. 'xxx' is the base address (hexadecimal notation) of IDE port. The permissible assignment of the base address are as 168, 1E8 and 170. 'yy' is the interrupt number (decimal notation) of the corresponding IDE port. The permissible interrupt number are 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15. Note 1: you might emulate a secondary enhanced IDE port on the PCMCIA/IDE adaptor card as shown below: DEVICE=PICC.EXE /P:170,15 Note 2: this client driver will search for IO ranges from the default base address (if specified) and then 168, 1E8 to 170 and search for IRQ from the default interrupt number (if specified) and then 10, 11, 15, 9 to 12. -- PICD.EXE (PCMCIA/IDE CD-ROM Device Driver) -- This device driver requires that the PICC.EXE client driver to be installed before using the PICD.EXE driver. And this CD-ROM device driver will search for CD-ROM drives for Enhanced IDE ports (namely 1f0,14 and 170,15) and then the IO ranges/IRQ that PICC.EXE allocates. Installation Format: DEVICE=[drive:][path]PICD.EXE /D:drive name [/R] where /D:drive name specifies the drive name for MSCDEX.EXE to match, and the default name is _PICD_$$. [/R] reserves one drive letter for plug and play purpose, if this parameter is used then the CD-ROM drive need not exist to be initialized when system boots up. However, be sure that the PCMCIA/IDE adaptor card is inserted properly to allow Socket/Card/Client services to recognize its existence. Please install MSCDEX.EXE in AUTOEXEC.BAT file as shown below: MSCDEX /D:drive name -- INSTALL.EXE (Installation Program) -- You have to run this installation program under DOS environment; and this program will copy the necessary files into the target directory and automatically make changes to your system files. I.2 Error Messages a. *** Client is already installed PICC.EXE refuses to be installed twice, you have to take out one line of client driver installation from the CONFIG.SYS file. b. *** Card Services Release 2.1 not found The Client driver PICC.EXE needs a Card Services Release 2.1
[LIB] HELP - Install CD-RW Driver
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 06:48:06 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP - Install CD-RW Driver Hello Libretterati, Could really use some help trying to get my new external CD-RW working...very frustrated right now... It has PCMCIA card (or USB interface) CD-RW made by CenDyne. Came with both interface cables and a floppy disk with drivers. I may have screwed things up trying to install drivers I tried installing using some sort of DOS app that was already installed by the previous Libretto owner. The INSTALL.EXE app did run in the DOS app window and then I rebooted, but when I plug in the CD-RW drive it froze up the Libretto. After rebooting, tried doing restart in MS-DOS mode, but can't seem to get the INSTALL.EXE to run. Think it's been too many years since I had my ol' 386 and can't remember the right DOS commands ;-) Anyway, below is the ReadMe file on the floppy disk. Unfortunately, that's all the info I have with the drive. It does refer to the INSTALL.EXE file just before section I.2. Also, I do get error messages I.2.b and I.2.e during startup. Win95 is on Libretto now. Wanted to get CD-RW drive working so I could upgrade to Win98, install other apps from CD's, etc. Do I need to do something first to 'undo' my first install attempt with that DOS app? What DOS command should I use to run the INSTALL.EXE file? Any other suggestions? Thanks! Mark Silicone Valley Libretterati I PCMCIA/IDE CD-ROM solution for DOS I.1 Device Driver and Utility Usage -- PICC.EXE (PCMCIA/IDE Adaptor Card Services Client) -- This driver supports the PCMCIA 2.1+ Card/Socket services specifications. It is mandatory to load this driver before using the PICD.EXE device driver. Installation Format: DEVICE=[drive:][path]PICC.EXE [/P:xxx,yy] where [/P:xxx,yy] specifies the I/O port base and interrupt number that the Adaptor Card Services tries to allocate for this card in default. 'xxx' is the base address (hexadecimal notation) of IDE port. The permissible assignment of the base address are as 168, 1E8 and 170. 'yy' is the interrupt number (decimal notation) of the corresponding IDE port. The permissible interrupt number are 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15. Note 1: you might emulate a secondary enhanced IDE port on the PCMCIA/IDE adaptor card as shown below: DEVICE=PICC.EXE /P:170,15 Note 2: this client driver will search for IO ranges from the default base address (if specified) and then 168, 1E8 to 170 and search for IRQ from the default interrupt number (if specified) and then 10, 11, 15, 9 to 12. -- PICD.EXE (PCMCIA/IDE CD-ROM Device Driver) -- This device driver requires that the PICC.EXE client driver to be installed before using the PICD.EXE driver. And this CD-ROM device driver will search for CD-ROM drives for Enhanced IDE ports (namely 1f0,14 and 170,15) and then the IO ranges/IRQ that PICC.EXE allocates. Installation Format: DEVICE=[drive:][path]PICD.EXE /D:drive name [/R] where /D:drive name specifies the drive name for MSCDEX.EXE to match, and the default name is _PICD_$$. [/R] reserves one drive letter for plug and play purpose, if this parameter is used then the CD-ROM drive need not exist to be initialized when system boots up. However, be sure that the PCMCIA/IDE adaptor card is inserted properly to allow Socket/Card/Client services to recognize its existence. Please install MSCDEX.EXE in AUTOEXEC.BAT file as shown below: MSCDEX /D:drive name -- INSTALL.EXE (Installation Program) -- You have to run this installation program under DOS environment; and this program will copy the necessary files into the target directory and automatically make changes to your system files. I.2 Error Messages a. *** Client is already installed PICC.EXE refuses to be installed twice, you have to take out one line of client driver installation from the CONFIG.SYS file. b. *** Card Services Release 2.1 not found The Client driver PICC.EXE needs a Card Services Release 2.1
