Question : Problem: mscdex : how to use my external cdrom?

I have a laptop which doesn't have a internal cdrom. I have a ibm 4x external cdrom. I want to access the cdrom in dos mode? the driver is named: cd400rom.mpd in A:drive. So what i did is at A prompt. type: mscdex /D:cd400rom.mpd /L:D
But error msg says illegal option. Its syntax is mscdex [/E/K/S] [/D: ... ] [/L:] [/M:]

What should I do? I have win95 installed in the laptop.

Pleas help!

Thanks

Answer : Problem: mscdex : how to use my external cdrom?

Yes, that driver is for win9x so the sys file should be used for dos

the config.sys or config.dos file entry should look like

devicehigh=C:\cd400rom.sys /D:cdrom  
 
(loads the driver to high memory, when the .sys file is on C:\ )

then the autoexec.bat or autoexec.dos should have in

C:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /D:cdrom

or you can type that at the command prompt.

regards,

Road Warrior