I'm beating myself up trying to make a bootdisk for this
it constistantly tells me no ata/atapi card found
ELP!
yes I have loaded cardsoft
and yes the cd-rom works fine in win95 or higher
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I'm beating myself up trying to make a bootdisk for this
it constistantly tells me no ata/atapi card found
ELP!
yes I have loaded cardsoft
and yes the cd-rom works fine in win95 or higher
What laptop are you using? I will show you how a boot disk for a Sony Vaio 505TX is made and that might help.
AUTOEXEC.BAT
@ECHO OFF
LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:ASPICD0 /M:12 /V /L:Z
path=a:\;a:\spt
CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=\sys\himem.sys /testmem :off
DEVICE=\SYS\EMM386.EXE X=D000-D0FF
DEVICEHIGH=\sys\ifshlp.sys
DEVICEHIGH=\sys\ansi.sys
DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO
REM the following section is used for setting up PCMCIA Service Driver
REM which is necessary for 3rd Party PC-Card (Ricoh Chipset)
DEVICEHIGH=a:\pcmcia\CNFIGNAM.EXE /DEFAULT
DEVICEHIGH=a:\pcmcia\PCMSS.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=a:\pcmcia\PCMCS95.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=a:\pcmcia\PCMRMAN.SYS
REM This is the Adaptec 1460 PCMCIA SCSI card driver
DEVICE=A:\PCMCIA\ASPI2DOS.SYS /D /PCMCIA /Z
REM This is the CDROM driver
DEVICE=A:\PCMCIA\ASPICD.SYS /D:ASPICD0
[COMMON]
LASTDRIVE=Z
If you aren't using a SCSI card you can delete or replace the interface driver with the proper one. You will also need ot replace the CDROM driver with the DOS version for your own. The tricky part is where the Ricoh chipset section is. You need the properdrivers or in your case Cardsoft. One indication the slot drivers are loaded properly is the beep you should hear. To simplify, load slot drivers, then the interface card drivers then the CDROM drivers. I hope this helps and doesn't further confuse you. Email me with your autoexec.bat and config.sys if you still have problems.
Matt