Can't get all drives to work right
caruana
I'm using the final build of Windows 98 and I can't seem to get it to assign
drive letters to all my drives. Hard drives are fine but my two Cd-Rom
drives and Zip drive won't all work together. I have a 24x pioneer CD-ROM, a
Ricoh CD-RW and an Iomega Zip Drive. Windows 98 lists all three of these in
device manager but the only one with a drive letter assigned to it is the
Ricoh drive. I have tried to select drive letters for the other drives but
they only let me select "I:" which is the drive letter assigned to the
Ricoh. If I screw around with disabling and enabling the drives I can get it
to switch the zip drive to I: but then the other two drives don't work.
There are no errors or conflicts listed in device manager. This setup worked
fine under Windows 95, all I had to do was just switch the drives to the
letters I wanted them to be. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It must
be something simple I am over looking.
Thanks in advance,
caruana
Clinton J. Watarai
Well, I'm only using the Win98 beta 3 (build 1650) I got off of the
Resource Kit CD and had a problem assigning drives higher than E:.
The resource kit says that the lastdrive parameter in the registry
defaults to Z: but this doesn't seem to be the case on my system.
Because of this, I couldn't assign higher drive letters! Gee, this
wasn't a problem with Win95.
What I did was to edit my config.sys file and stick in the line:
LASTDRIVE=Z:
My guess is that your system allows you to select the drive letter
assigned to your Ricoh because it's hard-coded this way and Win98
recognizes, maybe, drives A: through E: and I:. Try adding the
lastdrive parameter, above, to the beginning of your config.sys file
(or you could add "SET LASTDRIVE=Z:" to your autoexec.bat file),
reboot and cross your fingers! Well, hope this helps!
On Wed, 27 May 1998 19:28:01 -0400, "caruana" <car...@prodigy.net>
wrote:
Clinton J. Watarai
Why am I running an old beta? Simple, I'm not a developer or beta
tester and I don't believe new builds are legally available otherwise.
Also, I switched to Win98 beta because I couldn't get my brand-spankin
new USR Courier V.Everything v.90 ext. modem to work well with Win95.
There were no errors during installation and everything seemed to work
OK but when I did any significant transfers, I would get maybe 30k
then it would totally stop! It looks like a handshaking problem but
couldn't find any way to fix it. Heck, my old '486 with a 28.8 was
faster than my P200 with 56.6!
In an effort to find the problem, I tried everything from the latest
drivers from 3Com, flashed in a new motherboard BIOS, flashed in the
latest v.90 revision, tried an old ISA 16550 serial card I had laying
around, and even tried a fresh Win95 install but always the same
transfer problem. I still say it's a driver problem since the
V.Everything works fine with Win98's built-in driver. Oh well, just
another one of those OS mysteries I guess.
On Fri, 29 May 1998 15:39:54 GMT, kra...@my.email.address (krakan)
wrote:
>why do you try to run a hopelessly out of date beta with the release
>due any moment????
>There is so much stuff which will get messed up you probably end up
>with a clean install...
Y K Chan
Clinton J. Watarai wrote in message
<35706203...@news.lava.net>...
>Why am I running an old beta? Simple, I'm not a developer or
beta
>tester and I don't believe new builds are legally available
otherwise.
>Also, I switched to Win98 beta because I couldn't get my
brand-spankin
>new USR Courier V.Everything v.90 ext. modem to work well with
Win95.
Did you install the modem .INF file (MODEMCRV90.INF) that
came with the flash rom upgrade? USR Courier V.Everything needs
that file and not the Windows internal .inf file.
Regards,
Y K Chan
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