cdrom install

[Thomas Wall]

I need help, I am trying to install windows 98 on Dell latitude xpi p100sd. I have downloaded and installed PCMCIA33.EXE a basic DOS Config Utility & PCMCIA LOADER and it seemed to work but I still get a message "Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'. No valid cdrom device drivers selected. When I check the readme files for my cdrom this is what I find. "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".

[Justin]

Maybe a bit more information is needed, but I"m not exactly sure what you're asking. If you are asking for the specific parameters to use in your DEVICE= line, you'll need to research that from your end. You need to give it the path to the device driver, and the rest *should* not be required... If however you do need to specify the I/O port address and IRQ, you'll need to consult the documentation that came with your computer, or if you're lucky there might be something in your BIOS.

Most Win98 distributions come with a good boot diskette that is capable of loading drivers for most known CD drives, and I've personally never had a problem with it... You might try that (if you don't have the original boot disk, create one on any 98 machine from the Control Panel).

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Justin Nelson
SFE Software (http://www.sfesoftware.com)