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Thread ID: 658 1998-12-22 04:11:00 Getting 2 CD-Rom Drive's To Work In Dos Guest (0) Press F1
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990 1998-12-22 04:11:00 Dear PC World.

I Have A Pentuim 133, With 16 mb EDO Ram, 2 HD's & 2 CD-Rom Drives. A Creative 2X CD-Rom (Sony CD-Rom CDU33A) & A HP CD-Writer+ 7100i.

The HP CD-Rom Drive Reads At 6X Which Is Installs Programs Very Fast.

What I'd Like To Do Is Have The 2 CD-Rom Drives (E:\ & F:\) Available In DOS
So I Can Install Things Like Windows Quickly. I Am Using The Drivers That Came With My Creative Drive (SLCD.SYS & MSCDEX.EXE) & To Run My HP Drive I'm Using OAKCDROM.SYS. When I Use The Following Settings MSCDEX.EXE Tells My That Its All Ready Loaded. Is Their A Switch That Allows 2 CD Drives To Be Used In MSCDEX.EXE?

My CONFIG.SYS Is As Follows.

DEVICE=C:\SBCD\SLCD.SYS /B:230 /D:MSCD001 /K /M:P
FILES=40
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS
DEVICE=ASPICD.SYS (aspicd.sys doesn't do much apart drom display that its loaded)

This Is My AUTOEXEC.BAT

MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /M:15 /V /L:E
MSCDEX.EXE /F:12345678 /L:f (12345678 Was The Driver OAKCDROM.SYS Gave Me)

I Hope Someone Can Help Me..

PS Keep Up The Great Work On Such A Great Magazine

Yours Sincerly
Mr C Williams
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