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Atapi and DVD-RW Dos booting
Name: randy227 Date: November 29, 2004 at 11:19:22 Pacific OS: DOS CPU/Ram: Pentium M
Comment:
I am trying to figure out why when initiating a NEC DVD-RW drive while booting from DOS it is slow. The drive does initiate eventually but takes about a minute to do it. I am using the basic Atapi.sys file that works on most cd/dvd drives. Anyone have any thoughts as to why it is slow.
Name: Petit Jean Date: November 30, 2004 at 15:56:28 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/ Download eltorito.sys hardware independant cd/dvd driver.It is used where atapi.sys use is questionable.The above Bart's site is a must reference.Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: melee5 Date: November 30, 2004 at 22:34:26 Pacific
Reply:
I've always attributed the lag to the drive trying to decide exactly what kind of a disk it has in it and then accessing the data on it. They should have put RW boot CD at the top of the list instead of at the bottom?
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