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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7881)	6/14/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

The generic answer to all your questions is "no" <g>. Some specific questions "no" answers: (1) are you up to this, (2) all questions beginning with "Do you know", and (3) all questions beginning with "Can you tell me." With these ground rules, here are my sleepy reactions: First, nothing you do in Win95 is going to affect the DOS assignment of drive letters. Poke around. If one CD is I: the odds are very very high the other is J: or H:. The DOS delete command is DEL. The ASPI8DOS.SYS file is the ASPI scsi driver. You need that for the SCSI CD driver to work. It's one of two standard APIs for accessing SCSI devices, the other being CAM. I forget what they stand for. I once wrote a short verse about them, which I posted here long ago, but it's time for a repeat, so here it is: ASPI! CAM! GOD DAMN! Miracle of miracles, it looks like your config.sys and autoexec.bat CD entries are correct. The D: switch on the driver line in config.sys assigns a name to the driver. The same line on MSCDEX in autoexec.bat references the driver. Doesn't matter what they are as long as they are unique. BTW, I didn't check the whole syntax. Up, just reread it. You can't have two MSCDEX lines, but you CAN have more than one D: switch on the one instance. Make it MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /D:Plex0001 /v You can also assign a drive letter with the /L switch. /L:K will assign the letter K to a CD drive. Which? you may ask. Dunno, I answer. Don't you have a dos help function? If not, you should've installed DOS 6.2 instead of screwing around with Win 98. I know this is a comfort to you <g>. Incidentally, it looks like you have the spacing wrong. For instance, you posted: MSCDEX.EXE/ D:Plex0001 /v which should be MSCDEX.EXE /D:Plex0001 /v That is, the command "switches" (modifiers) have the form /S or, for those which take a value, /S:Value /v means "verbose", i.e., display errors. Gates got taken away with Unix envy in his garage, I guess. If DOS doesn't recognize a cd, you will get a message during the dos boot telling you. If you don't get such a message, the CD is there. Check H:, I:, J: as above. Good luck, Spots

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7881)	6/15/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Just a general suggestion... Try breaking your problem into smaller pieces and solving them one at a time. For example: Instead of putting commands in AutoExec.Bat files, type them in once you're booted. You'll get a chance to test your system 'before and after' to see if what you do works. Once you find the 'key', you can put the commands into files knowing they are correct. Adding lines to Config.Sys one at a time gives you the chance to review error messages and status updates. You can use this to zero in on the source of your difficulty. As the other guy posted, your '/' should be separated from your command and attached to your switch. Cheers, PW. P.S. Try looking at the .TXT files in \WINDOWS\ for some hints. I'd recommend MSDOSDRV.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT for someplace to start. I think they have reasonable explanations for the type of stuff you're trying to accomplish.

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7881)	6/15/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 14778

Drive Letters ... DOS assigns drive letters. Drive letters are assigned to primary partitions, beginning with the first hard disk it finds. If you have more than one physical drive, the primary partition on the next drive it finds gets the next letter. Once these primary partitions are 'used up', the logical partitions gets their letters, beginning with the first physical disk. Only when this is finished, do 'extra' things, such as RAMDRIVES, network drive, and CDs get their letters. Sometimes this process gets a little mixed up and you get scrambled letters. Software exists which can sort things out for you. Try each letter 'C:', 'D:' ... until you determine what letter has been assigned to each drive or partition. Once you know what's been done, you'll can devise a plan to correct the situation. Cheers, PW.