I believe this has come up before. I don't believe there's any W2K/XP driver
for that drive, so you're out of luck for a driver to support the multiple disk
feature.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:50:01 GMT, "Philip Schlesinger" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hi all. I have an old NEC 4x4 IDE CDROM drive. Basically, it is an
>internal IDE CDROM drive with four internal slots (in other words, it holds
>4 CDs). Windows 98 gave each slot a drive letter and using the old Windows
>CD Player, I could make Windows play the CDs in sequence.
>
>With Windows 2000, it now thinks that I have one drive and that I'm going to
>be using this for archival purposes (i.e it thinks that I will use some
>special program that understands Removable Storage). I can't find a program
>out there that will recognize Removable Storage and then play the first
>music CD, then the second music CD, etc. Ideas?
>
>Or if I can throw out another tack, anybody know a way to convince Windows
>2000 to give each slot its own drive letter like Windows 98 did?
>
>Your help is greatly appreciated
>
>Thanks,
>
>Phil
>

It's a very long shot, but if NEC (or anybody else) has come up with
more recent similar internal devices with W2k drivers, there's a chance
that the internal interfaces haven't changed much - and such a driver
might work for you.

If it's of any interest, I have a very old 7-drive SCSI external NEC
jukebox that runs fine on W2k on a very old machine in the corner. SCSI
is a different story, of course. The thing behaves like a Model T in the
Indy 500 though, and I have no idea why I hooked it up. Maybe to see how
long I could make a W2k boot last...maybe to listen to the endless
click-whir as W2k cycles along identifying all drives present...maybe my
closet was full. I rarely give it power. It sits there. Still, one never
know, do one? :-)

Philip Schlesinger wrote:
> Boo hiss
>
> Thanks for the info. If anybody has a good solution, please please please
> let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)>> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>I believe this has come up before. I don't believe there's any W2K/XP
>
> driver
>
>>for that drive, so you're out of luck for a driver to support the multiple
>
> disk
>
>>feature.
>>
>>On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:50:01 GMT, "Philip Schlesinger"
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all. I have an old NEC 4x4 IDE CDROM drive. Basically, it is an
>>>internal IDE CDROM drive with four internal slots (in other words, it
>>
> holds
>
>>>4 CDs). Windows 98 gave each slot a drive letter and using the old
>>
> Windows
>
>>>CD Player, I could make Windows play the CDs in sequence.
>>>
>>>With Windows 2000, it now thinks that I have one drive and that I'm going
>>
> to
>
>>>be using this for archival purposes (i.e it thinks that I will use some
>>>special program that understands Removable Storage). I can't find a
>>
> program
>
>>>out there that will recognize Removable Storage and then play the first
>>>music CD, then the second music CD, etc. Ideas?
>>>
>>>Or if I can throw out another tack, anybody know a way to convince
>>
> Windows
>
>>>2000 to give each slot its own drive letter like Windows 98 did?
>>>
>>>Your help is greatly appreciated
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Phil
>>>
>>
>
>