older 'hardware'?

I have an older laptop (Hitachi E133) that came w/ a CD-ROM.  The CD drive is a non hitachi product that was included back in 1997 (spring of 97).  

It's a 6 speed CD ROM.  Looks like regular CD player.  It has flip open lid.  It's a PC card type CD-ROM.  There is no name of a manufacturer (and  can't find the old owners manual).  Any how, I think it's model number is: MCD-601P

Also, I have a US Robotics modem.  Sportster external 33.6 Faxmodem.... (from 1998 or so).  Any how, the 'other Hitachi laptop' only goes to a 28.8 faxmodem.  (Was thinking about trying that just for kicks).

Any how, I figured I'd ask...

I usually have luck on www.winfiles.com

[url=http://www.driverzone.com/index.html]Driverzone[/url] has tons of drivers for old hardware.  Knowing the make of the drive would help, but you might be able to do a search on the model number.

[url]www.windrivers.com[/url]
[url]www.driverguide.com[/url] Login: drivers Password: all

Well, I found a scrap paper with some info.... but I'm afraid that Hitachi used a '3rd party' company (small one).

Does any one know of a company called CNF?  I have "CNF external CD ROM" written down.  So MCD-601P is probably the model (I'm quite sure of that).

EDIT-
Got some drivers.... will have to try later.  Thanks to all who replied.

This looks like what you want:

[url]24.237.160.4/files/Drivers/PCMCIA/Hitachi/6xcdrom/[/url]

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Kaliburz
E-mail me. I have an old program called CD God with almost every old CDROM driver there is.

I take it you got the hard drive to work?

5isalive,

That Hitachi that needs the HD still needs work. I plan to have a friend of a friend try to get to work for me (I'm not familiar w/ the partition of HD). Might cost me 1 M1A mag...well worth it.  He helps my FFL buddy w/ his computer stuff.  And my FFL buddy knows his phone number.... but my FFL buddy is on vacation.

I purchased another 'clone' like my old one (same model, tad bit smaller HD, lower memory).  I just want to put some stuff on that 'new' laptop, but I seem to have misplaced the install disk for the CD rom.

Edit-
(Originally, the auction seller said it had a CD Rom, but was in error.  Got 40 bucks back because of his mistake.  Any how, figured I'd make my original CD Rom work on this 'new one'.  Can't recall where I had the disk...so I'm searching and asking).

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XM777,

I think that's it!!!  Downloading now to try....

Well, tried to save it all onto a floppy, but when I run Setup, it runs...but an error pops up.... [:(].  So close....  something about trying to read some value and it's wrong or .... will try it again later.

Edit:

The error reads:
(Window tittle): WinSFX Error
"WinSFX Error: Unable to complete the installation process.  Can not read when searching for .RED data.  Attempted to read 30720 byts.  Actually read 5 byts.  Total bytes read: 30725"

What does that mean?


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tc6969,

Interesting.... just might e-mail ya.  (Sounds like a nice thing to have....for archives)

In reference to the download XM777 showed.

Well, tried to save it all onto a floppy, but when I run Setup, it runs...but an error pops up.... . So close.... something about trying to read some value and it's wrong or .... will try it again later.

The error reads:
(Window tittle): WinSFX Error
"WinSFX Error: Unable to complete the installation process. Can not read when searching for .RED data. Attempted to read 30720 byts. Actually read 5 byts. Total bytes read: 30725"

What does that mean?