dvd drive recognised as a removeable disk?!

[Alex Walker]

I'm trying to use a new unbranded dvd drive in a 400Mhz dell base unit.
Win98 has recognised it as being there, but it thinks that its a removeable
disk drive, occasionally it thinks its a harddrive, and sometimes it just
wont recognise it at all. According to the device manager, the device type
is 'yyyyyyyyyyyy'.

Any ideas? Anyone?

Thanks,
Alex

 

[jaster]

I'm trying to use a new unbranded dvd drive in a 400Mhz dell base unit.
Win98 has recognised it as being there, but it thinks that its a removeable
disk drive, occasionally it thinks its a harddrive, and sometimes it just
wont recognise it at all. According to the device manager, the device type
is 'yyyyyyyyyyyy'.

Any ideas? Anyone?

Thanks,
Alex

Got the W98 drivers for the drive? Usually better to put the
unkndvddrv.sys in config.sys and autoexec.bat.