CompuServe Thread

Warning to those who are using the new PAS 16 with a proprietary CDROM drive: I just installed the new PAS 16, rev D on my 386 computer, which already had a Mitsumi drive with a proprietary interface. I discovered the hard way, by a whole weekend of struggle, the following: 1. The install program gratuitously messed up my config.sys and autoexec.bat files, so that my CDROM drive would not work at all under Windows. I finally got a tech support person on the Media Vision section (section 12 of Multiven) to confirm what I suspected – that I needed to delete the following lines that the install program had added. As I now unerstand it, these lines are appropriate for CDROM drives with an SCSI interface, but mess things up for CDROM drives with a proprietary interface. In the config.sys file, the offensive line was: device=C:\proaudio\tslcdr.sys /d:mvcd001 /w3 In my autoexec.bat file, the offensive line was: C:\proaudio\mscdex.exe /d:mvcd001 /m:10 /v To make matters worse, one of these appeared before my own similar device= command, and the other appeared in autoexec.bat after my MSCDEX command. Together they thoroughly mixed things up. As soon as I deleted these two lines, it seems as if things are working fine (my seven-year old daughter is now playing with our first MPC CDROM – "Just Grandma and Me." It looks as if the PAS 16 automatically did whatever else was needed to install the sound driver, multimedia extensions, or whatever, with Windows. 2. I don't get CD-Audio yet. I've gotten contradictory advice about this on the Multiven forum but I believe that the solution is to take the cable which now goes, inside my computer, from the audio out on my CDROm drive to the J5 jumper on the sound card (I first have to disconnect the same cable from my proprietary Mitsumi CDROM interface card). Again, the PAS 16 installation manual was completely inadequate in explaining how to connect this cable for proprietary CDROM's. It said its "CDROM installation" chapter was only for people SCSI cdroms – but then it turns out it failed to mention this audio cable is also needed for proprietary CDROMS. I haven't yet tried the last suggestion, so I'm not yet sure if it's right.