MS-DOS CD Driver Issue.

Twiggy

I know long time no post, but I took my 486 to a repair shop, and they fixed it. Turns out my comapct flash card died, they gave me a new one, and they also installed a real 2GB hard drive.

It all works.

I recently formatted the drive, told the BIOS to ignore the flash card, and it's all fine.

I went to install the oakcdrom drivers, and now it keeps telling me

"Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'
No Valid CDROM device drivers selected "

Which is funny, because the oakcdrom.sys file is in C:\DOS

and autoexec.bat and config.sys seem to be edited properly.

I'm at a loss here.

P.S: I just noticed it also says:

"Device Name :MSCD001
No drives found, aborting istallation "

I guess, check if the IDE cable is in properly? As the power definitely is as it opens and closes.

BigCJ

Has it worked with OAK before? If you are unsure, there is a distinct possibility of incompatibility. If OAK has worked in the past, you may have a backwards or bad IDE cable, incorrect jumper settings or a dead CD drive.

altracker9

Proper configuration of the CD requires the following statements to identify MSCD001

Config.sys
Device={path]oakcdrom.sys /X:MSCD001

Autoexec.bat
[path]mscdex.exe /X:MSCD001

where X: is your CDROM drive letter

BigCJ

@altracker9
I get the same error when trying to load OAK on a system without a CD drive, so I don't think it's an error with the startup files. A hardware issue is more likely.

Just in case, make sure these lines are in place:

CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\OAKCDROM.SYS/D:MSCD001

AUTOEXEC.BAT
C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE/D:MSCD001

vbdasc

Do you have an optical drive at all and if yes, is it connected properly? Also, check your BIOS setup. It may provide some insight about the ATA/ATAPI devices present and recognized by the system.

Twiggy

I looked in the box, the IDE cable was not connected to the optical drive.

I disconnected and removed the flash card, but now it doesn't want to recognise the real IDE hard drive, even after I set it to auto detect drives, and pulled all the jumpers out of the IDE hard drive, which I think sets it to master.

BigCJ

popeyewinter wrote:

pulled all the jumpers out of the IDE hard drive, which I think sets it to master.

Not necessarily. I have a hard disk or two that need jumpers even without a slave attached. If the jumper diagram isn't printed on the drive itself, Google for it.

Twiggy

e-mailed the repair shop, got some tips from them, tried them, did not work.

Going back to the repair shop, Tuesday.