PCMCIA CD-ROM

Hey Guys, time for me to ask a Question

Got an old Compaq Laptop here that i want to format with Windows 98 SE.
Bought an External PCMCIA CD-ROM Drive model ECD-600M-16 and the PCMCIA card is model EPC-9008

I want to boot up with a Startup disc, and have PCMCIA support for the CD-ROM so i can install Windows 98SE.

Of course trying a normal Windows 98 Startup disc doesnt work as these only have drives for IDE drives and not PCMCIA.

Any suggestions or ideas will be appreciated.

CJC

 

Nope, have tried that
:-(

 

Have tried creating one from a Windows 98 SE box i have here, and even tried downloading a various amount of ones from bootdisk.com with no success.

Did a bit of searching on the net and couldnt really find any done.

CJC

 

Did you get a driver disk with the card?
You will have to load the driver in the config.sys file on the boot disk.
Something like this probably device=a:\imapcmdriver.sys /d:cdrom01

Hope it helps, never used one before, so not 100%.

Cheers

 

Hey

I bought the Drive Second hand, so it didnt come with no drivers at all.

I have done a quick look for the drivers of the model numbers on the drive but cant really seem to find anything :S

CJC

 

Hi,
I did a quick search too and same result...not much!!

Are you a member of driverguide.com?
If you go there and register (its harmless) and do advanced search from the left, leave manufacturer field, select cd-rom for device, DOS for os and all drivers, then put pcmcia in comments, it gets 13 results.

Now granted, none have your model number, but hey, you never know right.

Hope one works for you.

Let us know.

Cheers

 

Cheers

I am a member of DriverGuide, visit it frequently for drivers for customers comptuers etc...

I wish they would just make a Generic Bootdisk with PCMCIA CD-ROM support, just like with IDE Drivers......

Nooooo.... that would make life TO SIMPLE! lmao

CJC