IBM USB Portable CD-ROM Windows 98 Driver?

Apologies for the crossposting.

So here's the deal:

I have an IBM X20 Laptop running Windows 98, which requires a separate
driver to use this USB CD-ROM. I ran into a driver conflict, so i tried an
uninstall/reinstall for the drivers. Imagine my chagrin when I realized
that I did not have the drivers for this peripheral on a separate disk any
more (too many moves).

It turns out that IBM doesn't have the Windows drivers for this product
either. For the curious, its FRU 00N8244, and is an OEM version of the TEAC
CD-210PU. I've found drivers for the TEAC drive which look pretty much like
i remember the IBM drivers looking, but the IBM drive must ID differently,
because they won't install. IBM is not all that interested in helping out,
though I've tried to contact them about it.

So, here are my questions/requests:

1) If anyone has these drivers, I would love to get them if that's
possible. you can email me at allen[underscore]adale[at]yahoo[dot]com.

2) If someone has a sense of how I would go about modifying the inf file to
trick windows into installing the TEAC drivers, that would be really
helpful. Feel free to answer here or email me.

Thanks,

Allen

"John Brown" <johnbrown@harpersferry.gov> wrote in message
news:hfKdnUctV8Zn5gaiRVn-hA@comcast.com...
> Apologies for the crossposting.
>
> So here's the deal:
>
> I have an IBM X20 Laptop running Windows 98, which requires a separate
> driver to use this USB CD-ROM. I ran into a driver conflict, so i tried
an
> uninstall/reinstall for the drivers. Imagine my chagrin when I realized
> that I did not have the drivers for this peripheral on a separate disk any
> more (too many moves).
>
> It turns out that IBM doesn't have the Windows drivers for this product
> either. For the curious, its FRU 00N8244, and is an OEM version of the
TEAC
> CD-210PU. I've found drivers for the TEAC drive which look pretty much
like
> i remember the IBM drivers looking, but the IBM drive must ID differently,
> because they won't install. IBM is not all that interested in helping
out,
> though I've tried to contact them about it.
>
> So, here are my questions/requests:
>
> 1) If anyone has these drivers, I would love to get them if that's
> possible. you can email me at allen[underscore]adale[at]yahoo[dot]com.
>
> 2) If someone has a sense of how I would go about modifying the inf file
to
> trick windows into installing the TEAC drivers, that would be really
> helpful. Feel free to answer here or email me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allen
>
>

Hi Allen

Quite possibly, the drivers are still on your system; even though you`ve
done an uninstall.
You could try directing the `new hardware found` back into your system;
namely :-c:\windows\system c:\windows c:\windows\inf and any other
places that the original drivers would have installed to.

colin