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I bought a PCMCIA CDROM drive on eBay.

I think the problem is that I need to add the PCMCIA driver to my DOS bootdisk's config.sys file along with the CDROM drive's driver.

I have downloaded the Cardsoft drivers for DOS for the Thinkpad 600E, but I am unsure how to proceed from here.

Any ideas?

I have a boot floppy here that enables the DOS cardsoft drivers (I think for a slightly older TP ... if it supports your cardbus controller chip(s) you could use it/modify it to support your TP and PCMCIA CD drive ...

Not sure how I'd go about getting a zip file to you though ....

Can you post what is the content of your config.sys and autoexec.bat files on your boot disk?

From that I think I should be able to figure which file(s) I need.

OK - here it is ...

config.sys
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REM device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
REM Country=044,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys
DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE noems EXCLUDE=D000-DFFF
REM CardSoft(TM) 5.32 PCMCIA DRIVERS
DEVICE=A:\CARDSOFT\CARDXTND.SYS
DEVICE=A:\CARDSOFT\SSCBTI.SYS /numada:1 /ada1skts:1
DEVICE=A:\CARDSOFT\CS.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\CSALLOC.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTAA.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTAB.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTI1.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTI2B.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTATM.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTHB2.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTSRAM.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\SSMSFLSH.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=A:\CARDSOFT\FTL.EXE
DEVICE=A:\CARDSOFT\CARDID.SYS
INSTALL=A:\CARDSOFT\CS_APM.EXE

device=a:\aspifmgr.sys /PORT=230 /INT=3
device=a:\kmecd.sys /d:MSCD0001

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The last 2 lines were added by me (I think - its a looong time ago)
They're specific to the (SCSI) cardbus adapter




autoexec.bat
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@ECHO OFF
a:\mscdex /D:MSCD0001

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OK ?

Thanks very much!!!

I will give that config.sys a try.
I have the same autoexec.bat file as you do.