Howdy,
What I would do...
Remove the CD-ROM completely. Physically disconnect it. Start Windows 95 in safe mode, and make sure no driver references exist for the CD. If you look under Device Manager while in Safe mode, make sure nothing exists for the CD-ROM category. Also check in the CONFIG.SYS file to remove any and all driver references. REM'ing them out is probably a good thing to do for now. Don't forget to REM out the MSCDEX line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT as well (if there is one).
Once that's done, re-connect the CD-ROM and make sure the jumpers are set correctly. Some proprietary systems like to use the Cable Select setting for CD-ROM's when Master/Slave is a better option.
When that's done, start up Windows 95 normally. The Toshiba CD-ROM should pop up under the Device Manager. Test it out. You might have to re-activate the driver loaded in the CONFIG.SYS. If you still get errors, try making a boot disk with the proper CD-ROM drivers loaded, and start the system up using it. If you still get drive access errors at that point, I would return the drive.
It's one thing to have driver problems loaded in Windows, but if it doesn't work at a basic DOS level, and the jumpers are set properly, don't waste your time further.
Hope this helps,
Rich |
