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I am now desperately seeking drivers which work with ICOM Simulations Sherlock Holmes Consulting Dective (Version: 3) for a Toshiba XM3301B. The following message was sent to both COREL and TOSHIBA trying to get working drivers. I have been trying since November, 1992, to get a working CD Rom device driver for my Toshiba XM3301B CD Rom drive just purchased in November of last year. The following is a PLEA sent to COREL which I forward to TOSHIBA for comment. This message was sent to COREL following a disturbing discussion with Toshiba Tech Support. ————————————————————————- Bryan (Of Corel Tech Support Forum), I currently have the same drive as Guenther (Toshiba XM-3301B) with an Adaptec 1542b, and I have their ASPI packages, ASPI4DOS, ASW-410 (CD Rom driver pack), and EZSCSI. I also recently purchased Sherlock Holmes (Volume 1) from ICOM simulations and find that the Adaptec 1542b with Adaptec's drivers is alledged by ICOM to be passing GARBAGE through the drivers to the game. When I purchased the 1542b, I purchased the "KIT" including all drivers except CD Rom. I was told the CD Rom was included, but it turned out not to be included. I had to pay $59 more for the CD drivers. Then Feb 14, I found out the $59 CD driver pack was alledged to be the cause of Sherlock Holmes not working, and Adaptec told me I had to upgrade to EZSCSI for another $29 + $9 s&h. The EZSCSI not only did not fix the CD problem, but it now caused my IOMEGA OAD drivers not to function making it impossible to process data on my Bernoulli's. ICOM tells me that the Corel SCSI drivers WILL fix my problem because Corel develops their own drivers from scratch, but an end user tells me that the Corel CD Driver for Toshiba writes over the MOUSE.SYS device driver when running Sherlock. Toshiba tells me that their driver will work with Adaptec ASPI, but will not permit a return of the product if the drivers don't work. What's a person to do — can no one produce a WORKING driver for this CD Drive???? Can you please shed some light on how I can get my XM3301B working short of sending it back to Toshiba and replacing it with another brand?? Respectfully, Roger W. Faulds ————————————————————————- If anyone has drivers actually working with an Adaptec 1542B and a Toshiba XM3301B, please let me know what software you are using. Please include Versions, and if possible byte counts, and date and time stamps of the files. Thanks, Roger