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- To: executor@nacm.com
- From: jdvanas@iac.net (Josh Vanas)
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: E/D Win95 Drive Problem Update
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- I apologize. I have never posted to list's before. I posted A reply to
- Sean Kanes CDROM problem, but only sent it to his address. I am no
- reposting the whole discussion for the benifit of any who might have been
- interested.
-
- SEAN KANE WRITES THE ORRIGIONAL PROBLEM:
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- >> Also, when I have a (non-mac) cdrom in my SCSI CDROM drive and start
- >> up E/D 1.99o in Windows 95 Gold. Executor (-nosplash) runs but all I
- >> get is a black screen and I never see the browser or anything appear.
- >> So I have to kill that process and return to Windows 95. If I remove
- >> the CDROM from my drive executor then boots fine, althought the local
- >> drives still freeze it when I click on them.
- >>
- >> Sean
- >>
- >>
- >
- >
-
- JOSH VANAS WRITES THE REPLY:
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-
- I am no expert, but, have you tried installing MSCDEX as your CD-ROM driver?
-
- Quote from the FAQ:
-
- Executor accesses CD-ROMs through the Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions
- (mscdex). You need to have mscdex installed on your machine for Executor
- to see your CD-ROM. Furthermore, Executor is fussy and will not deal with
- MS-DOS drives that contain Macintosh formatted media, unless the drive
- letter is "J" or less. If your CD-ROM drive letter is higher than J, you
- will need to renumber it to be less than or equal to J.
-
- Under Windows '95, there is a different way to access CD-ROMs -- a way
- that Executor doesn't use. However, Windows '95 can also use mscdex. To
- do so, you need to find and remove the:
-
- rem - By Windows 95 Setup
-
- portion from fthe mscdex line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You will also
- need to edit your CONFIG.SYS file and make sure the CD-ROM driver is also
- not commented out.
-
-
-
- SEAN KANE WRITES IN REPLY TO JOSH VANAS' SOLUTION:
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-
- > Yep, that's the problem. However, one would think It would just ignore
- > the cdrom if no MSCDEX was loaded not freak out. However this may be
- > to the fact that Windows95 assigns the cdrom a drive letter without
- > using mscdex and this is throwing executor for a loop......I will load
- > mscdex in my autoexec anyways to solve this......
- >
- > One note: Loading mscdex, mouse drivers , etc into your autoexec will
- > slow down Win95 (although it shouldn't be noticable on a fast
- > machine). It forces Win95 into a "Compatibility Paging Mode" that
- > makes it work with unidentifable real-mode drivers, etc....
- >
- > Sean
- >
-
-
- I hope that clears things up. Sorry for any confusion.
-
- Josh
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