[kendo]

if your cd rom is external and working through the pcmcia slot then you will need dos drivers from the manufacturer to make it work, you would also need to load pcmcia drivers from dos so dos could "see" first the pcmcia slots and then the cd rom

there would have to be a call in the config sys and autoexec.bat files to make these items work

mscdex will be run from the autoexec file on a boot disk and look something like MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:Z

your cd rom sys file will look something like this and run from the config.sys file on a boot disk

c:\cdrm\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001

in this case oakcdrom.sys file is the actual driver for the cd drive, your particular drivers will of course have a different name

if your drive is supported in dos (likely it is because of the age) you could possibly get all the drivers needed from the manufacturer or somewhere like driverguide.com