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Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:27:32 PST7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DOS install

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Peter & Steven:

Thanks. The information you provided did the trick.

My problem was when I booted that old machine from a DOS floppy I couldn't get anything except a
diagnostic that said there was no drive specification for any drives except A:. That is when I went
looking for a driver for the hard drive. When you said I shouldn't need a special driver for IDE hard
drives I looked elsewhere for the problem. It turns out the HD had been formatted with NTFS and was
not visible to DOS. (OK stop laughing now or you might hurt yourselves.) FDISK fixed that problem.

All went well including making adjustments to autoexec.bat and config.sys. I had pretty much doped
out what needed to be in those files except for the "name" part. I knew about the name thing but not
what name should be used. Thanks for the insight into that subtlety.

Sheridan

Sheridan George wrote:
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> I know this is not really an OS/2 problem but I need help.
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> I need to install PC DOS 7 on an old P100 computer but I have not been able to find the device driver
> for the Maxtor 7850 AV hard drive this computer has. Can someone point me in the right direction for
> the hard drive driver. I can find only text files on the Maxtor site for the 7850 drive.
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> On the Matshita site I found 58x_dos.zip for the Matshita CR-581 CD-ROM drive. That zip file expands
> to 5 files that include CR_ATAPI.SYS which the readme says is the driver. If I read the DOS 7
> directions correctly, I need to place "MSCDEX CR_ATAPI.SYS" in the autoexec.bat file to load the
> CD-ROM driver. Will someone confirm that, please.
>
> Sheridan
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