Problems with CD-ROM and CD-RW

[stachnie]

I have installed Civ III on a system with one CD-ROM drive, under Windows 2000. Recently I have added a CD-RW drive. At first I had to disconnect the old CD-ROM (now I have 5 ATAPI devices: 2 HDD-s, CD-ROM, CD-RW and Iomega Zip and I had only one onboard EIDE controller) and CivIII refused to start (message as if it couldn't find CD-ROM). CD-RW was at secondary *master* and Zip at secondary slave.

I tried to adjust drive letter but it changed nothing, so I reinstalled Civ III, re-applied fixpak 1.29f and everything went O.K. Now I bought an additional PCI EIDE controller and Zip is attached to its primary master while *CD-ROM* is attached to the secondary *master* and *CD-RW* to the secondary *slave* of the onboard controller.

Result: although Civ III recognizes the Civ CD-ROM when I put it to the CD-RW drive but it doesn't in the CD-ROM drive. Is it due to the difference between CD-R and CD-RW drives or something else? Do I need to reinstall Civ III once again or just it is enough to edit some INI file?


Best regards,

Slawomir Stachniewicz.

 

[stachnie]

O.K. - I have solved that. It was enough to swap drive letters of CD-ROM and CD-RW.

Perhaps after I've installed CD-RW, disconnected CD-ROM and tried to adjust drive letter I've supplied wrong ones (it is possible because on my PC drive letter mapping under Win is hmmm... strange - most of my partitions are HPFS or Ext2, not recognised by Windows).


Slawomir Stachniewicz.