got a new, well old compaq

[jjzcp]

on the weekend i got a compaq 486 33MHz CD. It has a weird i think SCSI CD-rom, which eventually led to a problem. The windows 95 boot disk i have only supports standard IDE CD-roms, so i tried to put one on via slave, but it didn't work. I guess i will have to live with windws 3.1.

On the subject, does any one know of a place in the internet where i can get a windows 95 boot disk that supports SCSI?

 

[DimensionDude]

Hmm...may not be true SCSI, could be one of the proprietary interfaces such as Mitsumi (Aztech) or Panasonic (Matsushita). I think that Sony had one as well.

I don't recall ever using one of those with Win95, you may have to use the DOS drivers.

Ok, I know you said Compaq, but I have a Packard Bell sound card right here with the cd-rom interface connectors. Three of 'em, labeled Sony, Mitsumi/Aztech and Panasonic CR-5xx.

Perhaps Googling the drive model would reveal some info.

Kent

 

[Vlad]

What about useing an IDE controller card for the floppy? Would that work or would it conflict with something? Just and idea I thought I'd throw out there....

-V

 

[dpatten]

on the weekend i got a compaq 486 33MHz CD. It has a weird i think SCSI CD-rom, which eventually led to a problem. The windows 95 boot disk i have only supports standard IDE CD-roms, so i tried to put one on via slave, but it didn't work. I guess i will have to live with windws 3.1.

On the subject, does any one know of a place in the internet where i can get a windows 95 boot disk that supports SCSI?

IIRC Windows 98 boot disks have DOS SCSI drivers on them. It should be as simple as transferring them to a win 95 boot disk and upgrading the config.sys and Autoexec.bat

 

[Micom 2000]

I have a Compaq 486 LTE which I've been unable to use to install Win 95, altho I've used it to install on other machines. It could be related to Compaq. There is a Compaq win 95 update program that I haven't had a chance to try yet.

Lawrence