On Feb 26, 1:20 am, Bill Watt wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:03:25 -0800 (PST), DJW
wrote:

SNIP

Reply at end



OK I got a new CD-ROM drive, a TEAC md CD-22E-N83 and put it in the
laptop I can hear it spin at startup with the windows 98 boot floppy
in A drive which is more than the old DVD did. However it still will
not bring up the Windows 98 install CD I have in the drive at startup.
I went out and got the driver for the drive online and put it on the
boot floppy its name is TeacCD-224EDriver.exe and also put the file
Teac_cdi.sys that came within the driver zipped file. The read-me that
came with the driver is below:

To install the TEAC CD-ROM Driver, add the following lines. Be sure to
replace path with the correct location of the TEAC_CDI.SYS and
MSCDEX.EXE.

In CONFIG.SYS,
DEVICE=path\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:MSCD001

In AUTOEXEC.BAT,
path\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001

I think I did the change with notepad correctly (do caps or small case
matter?) in the CONFIG.SYS file the thing mensioned above about the
path I was not sure about but the line as I saw other similar file
entries. I put it in as:
device=TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:MSCD001

Please see below what is now my floppy's config.sys file:

[menu]
menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support.
menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support.
menuitem=HELP, View the Help file.
menudefault=CD,30
menucolor=7,0

[CD]
device=himem.sys /testmemff
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001
device=TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:MSCD001

[NOCD]
device=himem.sys /testmemff

[HELP]
device=himem.sys /testmemff

[COMMON]
files=10
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048
lastdrive=z

But when it came to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file I did not find a clear thing
to do. However I did find what they asked to add in the line.... LH %ramd
%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%
already there so I did not make any change to that file (was that a
mistake?).
Below is the complete autoexec.bat file:

@ECHO OFF
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P
15
set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D
3 C
cls
call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
set temp=c:\
set tmp=c:\
path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\
copy command.com %RAMD%:\ NUL
set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com
copy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ NUL
copy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ NUL

:ERROR
IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT
echo Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2
echo.
pause
GOTO ERROR

:EXT
%RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab NUL
echo The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.
echo.

IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT
IF "%config%"=="HELP" GOTO HELP
LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%
echo.
GOTO QUIT

:HELP
cls
call help.bat
echo Your computer will now restart and the startup menu will appear.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
restart.com
GOTO QUIT

:QUIT
echo To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.
echo.
rem clean up environment variables
set CDROM=
set LglDrv=

One thing I read somewhere online was about the CD not being found
when the MSCDEX.EXE file is loaded. I looked on the CD and found no
file by that name so I went to the web and got the win 98 file for it
and put it also on the boot floppy.

The CD drive is still not coming up I get the message:

Device driver not found: "MSCD001"

No valid CDROM device drivers selected.

Where is the file TEAC_CDI.SYS ?

In a folder on the CD ?

Regards,

Bill Watt

Bill I put the TEAC_CDI.SYS file along with the driver on the floppy
all is at the top level.