Rod, at 07:41 on Aug 07 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> MSCDEX is installed from autoexec.bat, and the system hangs
BG> long before then. In fact, stepping through each line of
BG> config.sys works fine until I get to CR_ATAPI.SYS, then it
BG> locks solid with the Divide Overflow message.  Haven't tried
BG> JUST that driver on its own though, but will later today.

RS> Sure, I just wanted to make sure you really
RS> had proven it was the driver that carefully.

Oi, it's ME your dealing with here, not Paul Edwards.  :)

BG> Later:  No joy, that driver flatly
BG> refuses to load under any circumstances.

RS> Certainly rather odd. Presumably just a warty driver which exhibits
RS> its wart in that particular motherboard/cpu/IDE port config etc.

Yeah, there's absolutely no doubt at all now that the driver is fucked.

RS> The Soundblaster CDROM drivers are pretty relaxed about what they will
RS> run on CDROM wise, mainly coz Creative uses a variety of OEM drives.

The one I now use (which works) is for a Mitsumi, I believe, even though
the name sounds like something you'd use on a Creative drive (SBIDE.SYS).  

BG> Funny thing is that both Win95 and OS/2 work just fine

RS> Which is pretty convincing confirmation of a fucked driver which
RS> just exhibits its wart in that particular hardware config.

Oh sure, that was never in doubt.

BG> (just as well, as I don't need to use native MS-DOS 6.22 anyway).

RS> Yeah, I dont even bother with those DOS CDROM drivers
RS> except for a minimal DOS boot floppy which can see the
RS> CDROM drive for absolute last resort disaster recovery.

True, but when one has just spent almost $50 of his hard-earned money to
upgrade to a P150+ system, one expects it to work properly.  :)

BTW, you might be interested to learn that I sold the SIS VLB m/board, the
AMD 5x86/160 CPU, the 2Mb CL5428 VLB video, and its 32-bit EIDE VLB
controller, to none other than your extremely good friend, Dave Hatch. 

Regards, Bill
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