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Can anyone help me getting my Plextor drives work in DOS?

I'm trying to create a boot discette to run ghost from, but i can't get the SCSI adapter/cd rom drivers to work.
I hav a Asus SCSI card without BIOS (Symbios chip).
One Plextor CD ROM and one Plextor burner. Also, two HDD partitons are FAT32 that will be found under DOS.
Under boot, the aspi driver is loaded, then the Symcd lists both my drives, but after the plextor driver is loaded the drives arent present...?
What am i doin wrong?

My Autoexec.bat:
@echo off
MOUSE.COM
LH \MSCDEX.EXE /E: plx001 M:/10
CD GHOST
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE

Config.sys:
DEVICE=ASPI8XX.SYS
DEVICE=SYMCD.SYS /E
DEVICE=plextor.sys /E: plx001 M:/10
LASTDRIVE=Z


Any help would be great

Here is what I have with my Plextor burner and reader:

CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=T3X5ASPI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=TRMDISK.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=TRMCD.SYS /D:CDROM0
DOS=HIGH,UMB
BUFFERS=20,0
FILES=30

and AUTOEXEC.BAT:
MOUSE
LH MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM0 /L:F /M:12

I got the SCSI drivers from the Plextor Manger CD. You also have to make sure that ALL those drivers are indeed on the floppy boot disk.

I don't know much about the meaning of all the commands in these files... but i tried editing a win98 boot disk, and put in my own files.
It worked
So i boot from this, and then i can run Ghost from a second discette

Would be nicer if i could manage with one though...

Wich files are the ones u are using here:
DEVICEHIGH=T3X5ASPI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=TRMDISK.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=TRMCD.SYS /D:CDROM0

And why do u use DEVICEHIGH?? What does it mean?

Thanx Executioner

Those devices were recommended by Plextor to boot to DOS. The DEVICEHIGH command will load the device driver in the upper memory area, thus freeing up some conventional memory (remember that?) for use by DOS and programs. I just loaded them all as recommended by Plextor.

If you wanted to experiment, remove each driver one by one to see which one you don't need. You can do this by placing a "REM" (without the quotes) in front of the command.

Hmm... ok Yes i remember the memory thingy he he


Where can i find those Plextor recommended files?
And what does "/L:F /M:12" stand for?


Thanx again

As I said, I got those drivers from the Plextor Manager CD.

The /L:F is the drive letter you want assigned to the CD
The /M:12 are the buffers