IBM External PCMCIA CDROM

[Alexander560]

Hi there,

I'm currently having issues with my Thinkpad 560X. I'm trying to install Windows 98SE on it. The problem is that I can't get the External PCMCIA CDROM (1969-111 which looks like this: http://i2.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/0c/52/89_1.JPG ) to work with a Windows 98SE Boot Disk. So far I figure that the problem is to do with the config.sys setup which mostly looks like this:

DEVICEHIGH=IBMDSS14.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=IBMDOSCS.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=DICRMU01.SYS /MA=D000-D7FF /SH=1 /IX=5,10,11,15

device=ibmtpcd.sys /D:IBMCD001

The first part enables the PCMCIA card, the files were downloaded from http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4KK4XU where it states that it supports the setup in question (PN 00K1084 IDE card with IBM Portable CD-20X) and the second part should enable the CDROM, except it doesn't. I know the CD works as it was fine running under Windows 2000, although the laptop itself ran slow which is why I'm going back to Windows 98.

Any help would be appreciated!

[SeanM]

ibmtpcd.sys doesn't sound right for a pcmcia drive. Did you install the driver for this cdrom drive?

[Alexander560]

I've been unable to obtain the actual driver for the 1969-111 model of External CD-ROM which doesn't even appear to be available through the IBM website. Even places like Driverguide.com don't seem to have it and the closest matches they do have (such as for the 1969-010) don't work either.

I've worked around it a bit by creating a network boot disk and then copying the CD from my server across to the local disk, but it seems quite bizarre that there's no solution as such, and I've seen a lot of other people asking for drivers for this particular external CDROM drive on other forums (especially Driverguide.com).

[SeanM]

You do mean you have a 1969011, right? I don't know of a 1969111.

The driver for it and the 1969010 should be the same. Somewhere in the foggy depths of my memory I recall something about the I/O address of the card, you might have to change where it loads in the config.sys. I think there's an audio conflict. Move it from 240 to 220, or the other way around.

[Alexander560]

Type/Model: 1969-111
P/N: 03L3351
FRU: 03L3330

It shows up in Device Manager as 'IBM-PCMCIA Portable CD-ROM Drive'

And as I said previously - I'm not the only person after the driver:
http://www.driverguide.com/boards/cdrom2/1082.html

[SeanM]

Go here.

Download the driver.

Build the diskette.

Follow the instructions in the readme on the diskette.

[Alexander560]

Ahhh! That at least gets the driver working under Win98. I should hopefully be able to fish out the .sys file and use it in the driver disk!

Thanks!