Getting a Toshiba PCMCIA Card CD-Rom to work?

[cwyles]

Hi

I have a Tobisha Portege 7220 Laptop with PCMCIA Card CD-Rom and I'm trying to install Windows 2000 Pro on to a clean formatted harddrive.
It will boot from CD, but a little way into the install I get INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error message!

I have found on the web that I can install from dos, by running the winnt.exe file in the i386 folder on the disc.
The problem I have is that I cannot get the CD drive to be seen when booting from a start up disc.

This web site tells me how to do it, but I do not know much about the files in a boot disc.
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/27583/27583.html

I think I have the right driver file and this is how I have configured the config.sys and autoexec.bat files -


DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20

DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana

rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1f0,14
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,15
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,12
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,11
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,9

LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=A:\ARCCD.SYS

---------------

@echo off

MSCDEX.EXE /D:banana /L:R
MSCDEX /D:ARCCD01 /L:E *gt; NUL


Please can anyone advise me if I'm going wrong somewhere, as it still won't see the CD-Rom drive?

Many thanks

Craig.

[cwyles]

Hi, I changed the MSCDEX /D:ARCCD01 /L:E *gt; NUL to MSCDEX /D:ARCCD01 /L:E > NUL and BINGO!

Many thanks.

[gguilhen]

Hi,
I read carefully the emails you posted because I have exactly the same problem, tits :
how to install windows 2000Pro on the portégé 7010ct, with :
- a floppy disk drive
- a PCMCIA CDROm drive (freecom F-to-TCD 24)
I finally succeeded in installing the drivers for the CDROM : I can read disk.
BUT when installing Win2000, the computer has to restart, and after the reboot the drive is no longer available...
Have you faced the same situation?
Thanks a lot or your support.
GG