Portege 3480CT CD Rom Drivers

I have a Portege 3480 that I want to boot in Dos with CD Rom support in oder to load a new Operating system. I have downloaded the companion diskette but the toscdrom driver does not load and therefore MSCDEX fails. The CD drive is 24xspeed attached via a PCMCIA card. The CD drive is Toshiba Part No 2793020 with Tosihiba PCMCIA card. Is there another driver that I should be using?

Quad
Thanks for you help. After many hours, I have finally managed to gain access to my Toshiba CD Rom drive which is attached via a Toshiba PCMCIA card.
I have done this with a mixture of the companion diskette from the toshiba website (which was no good on it's own!) and with a file from the freecom.com website.
It appears that when a machine is booted in Dos it is unable to see through PCMCIA cards to fully access external drives without a specific program (point enabler). Although the bios does allow you to boot from a CD Drive you can't load drivers and mscdex which give full access to the content of the CD
I found out with some Card Sevices software from tssc.de that the Toshiba PCMCIA CDRom card was is infact a Freecom card so I downloaded (00001005.zip) a Cable I & II PCMCIA Dos Driver of this website.
In the download is a file called fcpoint.exe, which I had to load in config.sys before I loaded the device driver toscdrom.sys (which was on the companion diskette).
For some reason toscdrom.sys could only find the cd drive when the machine was booted from the hard disk and not from the floppy (don't quite understand this, unless it's the fact that the floppy is attached by a usb connection on port replicator).
Also mscdex is needed in the autoexec.bat.
Hopefully I should now be able to continue with windows 98 setup from the CD Drive.

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