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At 12:22 AM 6/10/95 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jun 1995, Todd Tannenbaum wrote: > >> on a sad note, the panasonic PCMCIA CD-ROM does _NOT_ work with Windows 95. :-( > >I'm curious if anyone tried this: > >Start out with Win 3.1. Install the driver for the CD-ROM. Install >Win95 from the CD. > >I remember reading somewhere that if Win95 doesn't have a driver for a >particular device, it will revert to the Win3.1 driver for the device. >Would doing the install through the device (and thus already making it a >part of your hardware) force the system to use the old driver?? > the panasonic pcmcia cd-rom does not include any windows 3.1 drivers. instead, there are 2 DOS drivers in config.sys which look like: aspimngr.sys /port=380 kmecd.sys /d:PCMCIACD aspi is for the scsi (i guess), and kmecd is some driver for the drive itself. we placed a phone call to tech support. they said that "yes, the drive does not work with Windows 95. However, we refuse to develop a driver for beta software. If Microsoft does release Win95 in August, we will hopefully have a driver by late Sept or Oct". --------- Todd Tannenbaum CAE Model Advanced Facility email: tannenba@engr.wisc.edu ph: 608-262-3118