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From: paradis@sousa.ltn.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Low-level info on Mitsumi CD-ROM?
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:17:35 GMT
Reply-To: paradis@tallis.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA

Does anybody know where I can find low-level programming information
for the Mitsumi CD-ROM drive?  (It's the one that Software, Etc. is
selling, though that's not where I got mine...).  I'd like to write
a 386BSD device driver for it.  None of the documentation that came
with it has any manufacturer contact info (natch!)

I don't know what's worse... the old days when hardware manufacturers
would provide only specs but no drivers ("Bit-twiddlers Only Need Apply"),
or today when manufacturers provide drivers but no specs ("Don't worry
your pretty little head over it...") ...


-- 
Jim Paradis (paradis@tallis.enet.dec.com) 
Working for DEC, speaking for myself.
From: barrett@server.cs.jhu.edu (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: When am I going to see books... Real books on CD?
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:27:41 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@cs.umass.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD

In article <1992Aug26.233714.12686@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>When am I going to be able to buy a book, say the latest scifi novel on CD?

	Maybe it'll happen when you can sit down in a chair with
a CDROM playback unit and read it as comforably as a real (paper) book,
with no "eye fatigue" from a tiny screen.

	Oh yes... and the CDROM player has to be unbreakable (dropping a
book accidentally doesn't cost you $100 to repair it!), and the discs have to
to be cheap enough for average people to afford them.

	On the other hand, maybe everything will suddenly start
coming out on CDROM when we start running out of trees.... :-(

                                                        Dan

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From: uho@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Walnut Creek CDROM suggestion
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:59:36 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kiel, FRG

In <9208210416.AA05753@marble.eng.octel.com> shaun%marble%octela@UUNET.UU.NET (Ein keine nichtmusik) writes:

>A feature that would make PC-based CDROMs really nice for those of us who
>run 4DOS would be a descriptions file.  This is a file named DESCRIPT.ION,

Description files are already there, but under the name FILES.BBS.
You can patch a copy of 4DOS to use that name instead of DESCRIPT.ION. 

Another solution would be a TSR, which maps open requests to DESCRIPT.ION also
to FILES.BBS, if DESCRIPT.ION does not exist in the current directory. This would 
allow you to use an unmodified 4DOS. 



   Ulrich

Ulrich Hoffmann                   email: uh@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de  
Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Kiel        Tel: +49 431 560426 
Preusserstr 1-9, D-2300 Kiel 1, Germany            Fax: +49 431 566143
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ppaglia@bnr.ca (Peter Paglia P925)
Subject: Speech newsgroup forming
Followup-To: speech synthesis
Keywords: speech cd-rom newsgroup
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP 
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 13:33:12 GMT

Since  I received such a large responce from my previous posting
about text to speech conversion, I thought the following would be of
interest to this group:


Article: 1868 of comp.multimedia
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.compression,comp.dsp,comp.multimedia,sci.lang
From: ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp ("Y.Tsuji")
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: zoo.cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Organization: Centre for Informatics, WASEDA University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:45:28 GMT


They sent me a copy very  quickly, and I must say I am very satisfied with it.
Someone said that scholarly editions cost a fortune, but as far as I have
viewed, the contents do not seem to have  been edited at all. I mean few
seem to have gone through a reasonable spelling checker. Which convinces me
that unless one proofreads the whole of a piece of literary item, one cannot
possibly say e.g. Hardy's Far From the Maddening Crowd contains such and such
number of such and such word.
Apart from that the Desktop Library CD is a highly commendable item. I am
particulary fond of it because of its disclaim to copyright and permission
of free re-distribution, which is very suitable for educational and
scholarly research.

Dr Y Tsuji

-- 
				
				ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Nautilus Co Address
From: rlakin@eis.calstate.edu (Rick Lakin)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:38:23 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

Here is the address for Nautilus:

Nautilus
7001 Discovery Boulevard
Dublin, OH 43017

I have the Mac subscription and I have really enjoyed it.

					Rick Lakin
					rlakin@eis.calstate.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Mac emulation for 1990 U.S. Census CD-ROMs?
From: rlakin@eis.calstate.edu (Rick Lakin)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:18:09 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I have an NEC CDR-36 on a Mac LC running SoftPC Soft AT program.
The current version allows you to install and use the MS CD extensions.  I
have used several CD-ROMs that are for PC's and it works well.  I expect
that if the software works with soft PC that the CD-ROM will work as well.

					Rick Lakin
					rlakin@eis.calstate.edu

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux)
Subject: Re: SCSI Formatting (was Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:11:46 GMT

In article <1497@mgse.UUCP>, marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:
> I have read before that you should low-level format your drives every year
> or two to rejuvenate those part of the disk that are not being constantly 
> re-written (like the address marks??)  The idea being, in part, that when 
> the drive is powered up or down, there is a surge of juice thru the heads
> and because the magnetic charge is not permenant. I (superstitiously) agree
> with that and do it on small hard drives, sometimes. I have not done it 
> on my main system recently, too much trouble backing up everything twice
> and then reinstalling.
> 
> Any comments???

	You don't need to low-level format, you want to high level format.
The high level format is what writes the sector ids (your address marks).
When you read and write data to files, the sector ids only get read, never
written.  Powering up and down won't affect them, as most disk drives today
autopark the heads so they are not physically over the disk platter.  What
will happen is that, over time, the heads will drift, thereby losing track
alignment.  A sector that has been good can go bad and those that were bad can
become good.  Another problem that can occur is the dreaded Sector Not Found
error message, usually occurring when you try to read back the file you just
wrote.  The cause?  Either head drift or the sector ids magnetism has become
too weak, or both.

	So, doing high level formats will 'refresh' your hard drive.  There
are programs like Gibson's Spinrite and Norton's Calibrate, that can rewrite
the sector ids as well as preserve the file data in place.  Unfortunately,
they can't work on a lot of the higher capacity drives because of all the
sector translation and head and cylinder mapping that is employed to get
around the 1024 cylinder limitation of DOS.

-- 
________________________________________________________________________________
	R. Kevin Laux				Email: rkl1@hound.att.com
	AT&T Bell Labs				Voice: (908) 949-1160
	Holmdel, NJ 07733			Fax:   (908) 949-0959
From: catone@hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Street Atlas CD-ROM
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:38:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In-reply-to: nelson@crynwr.com's message of 2 Sep 92 01:30:19 GMT

In article <715397419snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
   In article <1992Sep1.135132.5417@engage.pko.dec.com> gettys@regent.enet.dec.com writes:
      In article <715145423snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)    writes...

      >   They say that they like to get reports on any errors found so that
      >   they can corect them.
      > 
      >Yes, and I wanted to know what kind of compensation they were willing
      >to offer for extensive error reports.  Answer: none.  So, they're not
      >getting my 20 or so corrections for St. Lawrence County, NY.

	      I find it a bit ludicrous that the poster would seem to
              feel that he should be compensated for his input (unless
              he undertook to do a SUBSTANTIAL amount of data
              verification of course).

   Well, I've been on EVERY road outside of village limits in a
   hundred-square mile area of St. Lawrence County.  What do you
   consider SUBSTANTIAL?  And I wasn't expecting to be fairly
   compensated for my time, but I expected *something*.  You know, like
   maybe return postage?

It would probably be appropriate and generate much good will if they
would give a copy of the new version with the correction to the person
who reported the error.  Can't see as this would break anyone.


- Tony
  catone@hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: 75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM (Nick Arnett)
Subject: MHEG contact?
Reply-To: Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:33:51 GMT

Attn: CDROM-L
                       Subject:
Time:9:05 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          MHEG contact?
Date:9/3/92
Folks,

Does anybody have an address or phone number for an official contact
person for the Multimedia-Hypermedia Experts Group (standards group)?

Nick
Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2918 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23270
From: J.Beech@SHEFFIELD-CITY-POLY.AC.UK (Julian Beech)
Subject: Re: Time to boycott Photo CD
Reply-To: Julian Beech <J.Beech@SHEFFIELD-CITY-POLY.AC.UK>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:35:20 GMT

I have to agree with John De Armond's mail on this subject. Of course
Kodak is going to keep it to itself, they spent alot of time and
money in development.  Given a chance and PLENTY OF SUPPORT then
maybe they will make Photo CD more accessable to other formats and
hardware, but it takes time and people working together, not against
it.  Photo CD is what I have only dreamed of, yes I want to put it on
my PC so I buy a video digitiser, all this lot cost's me less than a
good quality colour scanner and I know my masters are all at hand and
safer than negatives or 200 disks (you should see the state of my
negative collection).

                            Julian (Joules) Beech
                          Sheffield Hallam University
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: shaun@OCTEL.COM ("Attacking Deep Structure")
Subject: Re: Walnut Creek CDROM suggestion
Reply-To: "Attacking Deep Structure" <shaun@OCTEL.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:57:42 GMT

> In <9208210416.AA05753@marble.eng.octel.com> shaun%marble%octela@UUNET.UU.NET
>  (Ein keine nichtmusik) writes:
>
> >A feature that would make PC-based CDROMs really nice for those of us who
> >run 4DOS would be a descriptions file.  This is a file named DESCRIPT.ION,
>
> Description files are already there, but under the name FILES.BBS.
> You can patch a copy of 4DOS to use that name instead of DESCRIPT.ION.

This will not work.  The format of the description files is something like

FILENAME.EXT <size> <date> <description>

Patching the binary would print out the size and date and a few characters of
the description.  Additionally, 4DOS would no longer be able to access the
existing descript.ion files I have on zillions of floppies, or ones I get from
friends.  Patching binaries is a last ditch effort, anyhow.

Rob, if I write an ANSI C program that converts the existing description files
into 4DOS descript.ion files, will you use it?

> Another solution would be a TSR, which maps open requests to DESCRIPT.ION also
> to FILES.BBS, if DESCRIPT.ION does not exist in the current directory. This

Sure, sure, write a TSR that does disk IO.  Sure.  Anyway, FILES.BBS is an
Opus (& Maximus?) BBS thing, not a Simtel thing.

>  would
> allow you to use an unmodified 4DOS.

Besides being really hard to write, you would still get the size and date and
only a smidgeon of the actual description.

BTW, if you've got C or assembly source for a TSR like this, I'd love to
see it.  ;)

@Man

--
shaun@octel.com  ||  "Now is the time on Sprockets when we Lambada!"

Laundry: the process of turning perfectly good clothes into lint.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rnoia@netcom.com (Roger F. Noia)
Subject: Re: MS Word/Bookshelf CD bundle??
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 21:21:56 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

Its true!  Microsft is bundling an updated version of Word 2.0a with
the Microsft Multimedia version of Bookshelf that includes:
American Heritage Dictionary
Barlett's Familiar Quotations
Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Concise Columbia Encyclopedia
Hammond atlas
Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus
World Almanac 1992

Anything (most stuff) from any of the bookshelf applications can be
pasted into Word.  Many of the encyclopedia articles include animation and
sound.

The updated version of Word adds some more items to the toolbar (multimedia)
and bookshelf apps.
Included with Word on the CD is  a How To help thing to show you how to
do things in word.

All for $99 for users of Word 2.0(a)
and $199 for users of Word 1.x and Bookshelf '91 users and STUDENTS.

--Also see the latest issue of PC Computing (Sept 92) on page 36
for a rather large article (4 pages) on it.

For those that do not currently own Word or bookshelf.. the package is
selling for $595.

Rnoia@netcom.netcom.com
:-)


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ADM0404@SAIPA00.BITNET
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: ADM0404@SAIPA00.bitnet
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:56:25 GMT

Greeting:
Still have a problem with connecting two cdrom drives to one
MAC, the mac doesn't map drives like normal DOS, it only recognize
one cdrome drive and ignore the other. I heared of a company that
(might) carry a software for a mac to connect to a number of cdrom
drives on a network, but unfortunately I don't know there PHONE or
address, please well somebody help me to get information about this
problem or give me the address or phone NO. of this company:
           company name is : Knowldge Finder
ur responses are greatly appreciated, and once I collect the info about
the subject I shall post it.
Best regards,

AZIZ
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From: americo@ICAD.PUC-RIO.BR (Americo Barbosa de Oliveira)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Chinon CD-ROM device driver
Date: 29 Aug 92 22:29:32 GMT
Reply-To: Americo Barbosa de Oliveira <americo@ICAD.PUC-RIO.BR>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

I am having some trouble using my Chinon 431 CD-ROM with windows 3.1.
The probable cause is incompatible device driver.  Does anybody know
where can I find the latest version??  My main problem is that I live
in Brazil and which mean high phone charges.  So I would appreciate the
number of a place where I could find it easyly.

Many thanks,
Americo Oliviera



 _________________________________________________________________________
 Americo Oliveira                          e-mail: americo@icad.puc-rio.br
 ICAD/PUC-Rio (Laboratorio de CAD Inteligente)
 Rua Marques de Sao Vicente 225, Anexo RDC       Phone: +55-021-529-9424
 22453 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil                   Fax: +55-021-511-5645
From: doorn@cs.vu.nl (Doorn van JB)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Toshiba 3301 price
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:36:35 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

In article <1992Aug29.184225.2026@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> barrett@server.cs.jhu.edu (Dan Barrett) writes:
>	Are you sure it's the 3301B?  The ad I see (September 1992) says
>only "Toshiba SCSI CDROM Internal Drive."  It could be a lower model.
>
>                                                        Dan
Well, I asked before I posted. The saleslady could make a mistake, ofcourse..

-jb
From: pjs@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Peter John Swiatkowski)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Pioneer DRM-600
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:50:05 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Melbourne

In article <3SEP199209113121@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu> jms@arizona.edu writes:
>We think that we have an application for the DRM-6000---an environment
>where one disk, at most, will be in use, and not very often at that. This
>brings out two questions:
>
>1- where can I get one?  I have seen one vendor in the back of MacWeek, but
>I'd like to have multiple bids.
>
>2- I want to put it on a VAX/VMS system, which I believe may require the
>latest greatest firmware and perhaps a tech support call.  Is there a
>Pioneer support line?
>
>Thanks for your answers!
>
>Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719 
>Phone: 602.882.4094 (voice) .4095 (FAX) .4093 (data)
>BITNET: jms@Arizona  Internet: jms@arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::telcom::jms
>It's NO USE..  I've gone to "CLUB MED"!!

I've had a chance to compare the speed of this drive in basic copy
operations (using XCOPY under MS-DOS) and found it extremely slow when
compared to, say, the Matsushita (Panasonic) drive in the Sound Blaster
kit.

The on paper specification suggests that the performance should be similar
but this doesn't seem to be the case. I suspect that the 64KB buffer in the
Matsushita drive is making the difference (I don't know if the Pioneer has
any sort of RAM buffer installed).

What I'm looking forward to is the upgraded Pioneer disk changer. It's
model number is very similar (DRM-650??) by the specs look great. In
particular it uses 4 times the standard rotation speed of most CD ROMs (so
twice that of NEC etc.) for a potential sustained thoughput of 600KB/s.

Does anyone out there have one of these or be in a position to provide more
information?


Peter Swiatkowski
Iniversity of Melbourne
Victoria, AUSTRALIA
From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: When am I going to see books... Real books on CD?
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:56:18 GMT
Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

>In article <1992Aug26.233714.12686@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>>When am I going to be able to buy a book, say the latest scifi novel on CD?

When either (a) technology exists to prevent both network distribution
and CD duplication of copyright work, or (b) people turn honest.

You can get your favourite SF book on CD right now, if you know the right
companies (mostly in SE Asia). Direct marketers have been doing this with
telephone books for years.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: 75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM (Nick Arnett)
Subject: Movie CD
Reply-To: Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:04:24 GMT

Attn: CDROM-L
                       Subject:
Time:7:51 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          Movie CD
Date:9/2/92
-----> "Hi,
  Does anyone out there know of a CD-ROM with movie data: names of
films, cast, director/producer, summary of plot, rating and possibly
reviews.
  Thanks
                                            Abe

---

Microsoft has announced "Cinemania," which offers these things.  I
don't think it's shipping yet, though.

Nick
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NEC CDR-84 (CD-ROM) on Adaptec 1542B with OS/2: how?
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:52:02 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

stidolph@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wayne Stidolph) writes:

> 
> I tried the Selective Install (as directed in the "manual" for adding
> after initial setup) but the CD-ROM isn't on the display screen, nor
> can I find much in the Information object...
> 
> The CDR-84 did not come with any software or useful installation
> instructions. I phoned NEC and they sent me a disk of drivers for
> their Trantor boards - nothing on the Adaptec. I haven't got it to work
> under DOS/Windows, either - but that's later :)
> 
> What obvious step am I missing? I've got a lot going on, and I get to
> this only at day's end, so please forgive my incoherence, clout me
> upside the head, and say..."You dummy! Put this in config.sys:"
> and save my weekend!
> 

Do you have all the other parts of system code required for cd-rom access?
It is not clear from your post. Obvious you have the device driver working,
the two other parts of code that must be loaded are:
os2scsi.dmd and the Adaptec ADD driver. These are loaded with the statements
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
BASEDEV=AHA154X.ADD
Also to read ISO-9660 format CD-Rom, you need to load an IFS. This is done
by the statement,
IFS=<path>\CDFS.IFS

Of course you can also set up a bootable VDM complete with all DOS device
driver and access the CDRom via a Dos session. Note that you need to load
a real PCDOS/MSDOS version complete with MSCDEX etc. for this to work.

GeSS
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Knowledge Exchange|<><>|{rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!gwinnett!knex!gess|<><>|
From: mgeorgy@vmsclst1.sc.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:36:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Computational Systems
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadr126

Can someone please let me know how to use MSCDEX.exe???

Thanx in advance,
Matt Georgy
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona  -- Computer Science

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+  Cal Poly, Pomona, Making Yesterdays Mistakes Today +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: Richard.Willis@iphase.UUCP (Richard Willis)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Wanted: Used CD Drive
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:43:00 EST

Looking for an used CD drive for IBM comp.Telephone (904)720-0084 

 * Origin: U_CD-ROM: <<<<<<<<<< RE-ELECT NOBODY! >>>>>>>>>> (1:112/29)
From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 08:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193

P >From: pauls@trsvax.tandy.com
P >Date: 31 Aug 92 16:10 CDT
P >Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
P >Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
P >Message-ID: <1227767297@trsvax>
P >
P >Well, if you mean invoke it:
P >
P >mscdex /{drive letter}:{drive handle}
P >
P >where {drive letter} is the letter of the next available drive (usually D)
P >
P >and {drive handle} is the "mounting name" you indicated in your
P >drive-dependent driver (usually in config.sys).
P >
P >The default {drive handle} is usually mscd001. Therefoe, the invocation
P >would be:
P >
P >mscdex /d:mscd001

This is incorrect. The letter "D" indicates "Device Name". You must use "D",
not your drive letter. The device name can be anything, but some software
packages look for specific formats. MSCD001 is a good default.

P >assuming in config.sys you had something like:
P >
P >device=cdrom.drv d:mscd001
P >
P >note that the drive letter is not the drive letter mscdex will use, it will
P >"assign" the logical drive to the next letter available. In other words, if
P >you already have c,d,e in a hard drive, the cdrom then becomes f: EVEN
P >THOUGH you 'told' mscdex to use d: (why this is, I have no idea, it just
P >works).

Now you know why.
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