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Hi,

        I have a pc with two hard drives and a CD drive, and for some
reason in DOS it doesn't know that the CD drive even exists!

        I have DOS/WIN95 on the Master drive (drive C:) and on the slave
drive I have LINUX RedHat 4.2.  I uses LILO to tell it where to boot from.
In windows, I see C: as the main hard drive, and D: as the CD drive, and
the slave drive doesn't even exist when I am in WIN95.  In LINUX I see
everything fine.  When I am in DOS I only see drive A: (floppy) and drive
C: and it will not see anything else.

        The CMOS doesn't know the CD is there, I don't know how to set it.
I tried telling it there was another drive, but I didn't know what
settings to do, so it just hangs and doesn't boot if I don't leave drive
E: as "none"

HELP?!?!?!?

Quote:>Hi,

>    I have a pc with two hard drives and a CD drive, and for some
>reason in DOS it doesn't know that the CD drive even exists!

>    I have DOS/WIN95 on the Master drive (drive C:) and on the slave
>drive I have LINUX RedHat 4.2.  I uses LILO to tell it where to boot from.
>In windows, I see C: as the main hard drive, and D: as the CD drive, and
>the slave drive doesn't even exist when I am in WIN95.  In LINUX I see
>everything fine.  When I am in DOS I only see drive A: (floppy) and drive
>C: and it will not see anything else.

>    The CMOS doesn't know the CD is there, I don't know how to set it.
>I tried telling it there was another drive, but I didn't know what
>settings to do, so it just hangs and doesn't boot if I don't leave drive
>E: as "none"

Bye,

Peter Steiner
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Whether the BIOS sees your CD Drive depends on the type. The only
chance for it to be seen is when it is connected to one of the
hard disk controllers.
If it has its own card or is SCSI, it won't be seen.

BTW, this is not a question for comp.os.linux.*.

Regards,
HG Esser

Quote:>    I have a pc with two hard drives and a CD drive, and for some
>reason in DOS it doesn't know that the CD drive even exists!
>    I have DOS/WIN95 on the Master drive (drive C:) and on the slave
>drive I have LINUX RedHat 4.2.  I uses LILO to tell it where to boot from.
>In windows, I see C: as the main hard drive, and D: as the CD drive, and
>the slave drive doesn't even exist when I am in WIN95.  In LINUX I see
>everything fine.  When I am in DOS I only see drive A: (floppy) and drive
>C: and it will not see anything else.
>    The CMOS doesn't know the CD is there, I don't know how to set it.
>I tried telling it there was another drive, but I didn't know what
>settings to do, so it just hangs and doesn't boot if I don't leave drive
>E: as "none"

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