Getting a CD-Rom to work
11-Jul-93 15:40:05
Sb: #52528-Getting a CD-Rom to work
Fm: kevin kelly 76650,351
To: John Boncheff 73163,1303
Make sure you've got mscdex and other drivers loaded high successfully; if
they're hogging conventional memory, CD's and DOS programs under Windows may
tank, giving symptoms similar to those you're experiencing. Some programs,
games especially, need 550K or more free to run, or they may not run under
windows at all. And make sure that both drivers, .sys and mscdex are, indeed,
loaded at all. Failure of the .sys to load properly will also cause the drive
to fail to execute programs but permit some file reads.
Also, make sure that you don't have a disk-doubling program such as Stacker or
DOS's DoubleSpace that is using C: *and* D: (they create a "stacked" volume
that uses the extra drive letter) and that your CDROM is also trying to use D:
whilst DOS thinks it then has 2 D:s.
Hope it helps!