I know this is pretty old stuff but I'm trying to hook up
an old cd-rom drive (4x speed) to my old 486 dos computer,
However my computer can't seem to recognize the cd-drive.
I have it set to slave but it still says "invalid drive
specification" when I try to go to d: in dos.
Anyone has any suggestions on what I could do?

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"colin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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| I know this is pretty old stuff but I'm trying to hook up
| an old cd-rom drive (4x speed) to my old 486 dos computer,
| However my computer can't seem to recognize the cd-drive.
| I have it set to slave but it still says "invalid drive
| specification" when I try to go to d: in dos.
| Anyone has any suggestions on what I could do?

chk bios and see if the bios is setup to see the drive
>-----Original Message-----
>I know this is pretty old stuff but I'm trying to hook up
>an old cd-rom drive (4x speed) to my old 486 dos
computer,
>However my computer can't seem to recognize the cd-
drive.
>I have it set to slave but it still says "invalid drive
>specification" when I try to go to d: in dos.
>Anyone has any suggestions on what I could do?
>.
>

colin wrote:
> I know this is pretty old stuff but I'm trying to hook up
> an old cd-rom drive (4x speed) to my old 486 dos computer,
> However my computer can't seem to recognize the cd-drive.
> I have it set to slave but it still says "invalid drive
> specification" when I try to go to d: in dos.
> Anyone has any suggestions on what I could do?

The proper lines must be entered into autoexec.bat and
config.sys. To get a general idea of what is needed just
download a MSDOS boot disk from bootdisk.com.
You do not say which MSDOS version you are running,
but any of them will get you on the right track.