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CDROM driver with UDF support?
Name: RayeR Date: December 14, 2005 at 20:25:33 Pacific OS: DOS CPU/Ram: 6x86
Comment:
Hi, doe's anybody knows about some kind of MSCDEX replacement which support UFD? I'd like to read my DVD-RAM media formatted in UDF also under DOS.
Name: X86MK2 Date: December 15, 2005 at 01:55:01 Pacific
Reply:
The only MS-DOS and compatibles software which handles CDRW is:
http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/index.html
The MSCDEX just identifies that an optical drive is present, not what it is actually capable of. You seem to be in Windows Mode, you need a different approach with DOS.
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Response Number 2
Name: RayeR Date: December 15, 2005 at 07:12:39 Pacific
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Thanx, I downloaded DOSCDRoast package and found that it contains Matsus---a DVD driver with MKECDEX.COM which should add UDF extension to MSDEX. But unfortunately it doesn't wotk. Driver loaded sucessfully but UDF 1.5 media in drive is still unreadable :(
Is there any other driver?
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Response Number 3
Name: X86MK2 Date: December 15, 2005 at 08:09:07 Pacific
Reply:
It would appear that MKECDEX.COM is for DVD ROM Drives, which is a fairly universla standard.
DVD-RAM is a different type of Drive completely, you may have more luck using ISO9600 format, though everything I have read states W9x and later for DVD-RAM..
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Response Number 4
Name: RayeR Date: December 15, 2005 at 16:10:53 Pacific
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Really? I belived that DVD-RAM is transparent format, I mean that is fully handled by drive but from outside it is same as DVD-ROM or else. Only depend what filesystem I use. So there's no way...
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Response Number 5
Name: X86MK2 Date: December 15, 2005 at 22:01:51 Pacific
Reply:
The actual media is transparent, what you need is a device driver to inform DOS that you have a drive present....
Name: RayeR Date: December 16, 2005 at 13:29:53 Pacific
Reply:
"device driver to inform DOS that you have a drive present...."
This is done via DVD-ROM/CD-ROM SYS driver loaded in config.sys. I think it would be some replacement or extension of MSCDEX. Again, I don't need writting, just reading...
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Response Number 7
Name: hdgiojdfg Date: January 5, 2006 at 20:42:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hey RayeR, any luck? I'm having the same problem... trying to read a DVD+RW disk in DOS. I'm beginning to think it's not possible... which is utterly ridiculous, considering what a simple situation this is.
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