DOS DVD Driver

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Mechanix2Go January 7, 2010 at 14:25:56 Pacific

"I'm going to throw in the towel on this one." I'm all for that. ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

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DAVEINCAPS January 7, 2010 at 20:35:17 Pacific

So gcdrom.sys didn't work either? What error messages did it give when you tried it? Post back contents of config.sys and autoexec.bat. Ubuntu Cheeta, Ubuntu !

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worky January 8, 2010 at 14:03:55 Pacific

Here you go: CONFIG.SYS device=\dos\gcdrom23.sys /d:mik device=\dos\gcdrom23.sys /d:mik /c0 device=\dos\gcdrom23.sys /d:mik /c1 device=\dos\gcdrom23.sys /d:mik /c2 device=\dos\gcdrom24.sys /d:mik device=\dos\gcdrom24.sys /d:mik /c0 device=\dos\gcdrom24.sys /d:mik /c1 device=\dos\gcdrom24.sys /d:mik /c2 AUTOEXEC.BAT \dos\mscdex.exe /d:mik Except for different version numbers they all error like this: GCDROM DOS Driver V2.4, 2-6-2007 Driver name is "MIK". No CD-ROM drive to use; GCDROM not loaded! And then of course mscdex errors. It has an Intel ICH9 SATA controller.

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DAVEINCAPS January 8, 2010 at 14:39:36 Pacific

So all your dos files are in c:\dos? Change config.sys to: Device=c:\dos\himem.sys Device=c:\dos\emm386.exe Dos=high,umb DEVICE=DOS\GCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000 /C0 DEVICE=DOS\GCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /C1 DEVICE=DOS\GCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD002 /C2 And autoexec.bat to: C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /D:MSCD001 /D:MSCD002 Also check your files names. I think it should just be GCDROM.SYS and not GCDROM23.SYS or GCDROM24.SYS, unless you renamed them. Ubuntu Cheeta, Ubuntu !

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Mechanix2Go January 8, 2010 at 15:12:09 Pacific

Hi DAVE, Yeah but it must be finding the driver to report ver and no load. Doncha think? Is there such a thing as SATA in DOS? ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

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DAVEINCAPS January 8, 2010 at 16:13:59 Pacific

I thought it was odd since the message indicated it was finding gcdrom.sys but I checked the downloads and it was always just gcdrom and not gcdrom23 or gcdrom24. So I'm not really sure what's going on with that. I thought rewriting config and autoexec with just basic entries would make things clearer. Gcdrom.sys is the only dos cdrom drive I know of that claims to support SATA. It supports at least some laptop hermaphrodite drives (drives whose model numbers don't exclusively ID them as ATAPI or SATA) for which regular ATAPI drivers don't work. http://www.computing.net/answers/ha... Ubuntu Cheeta, Ubuntu !

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worky January 9, 2010 at 14:41:13 Pacific

Yea, I renamed the files so I could identify and work with them at the same time. I've already tried several different tests with himem.sys and emm386.exe also. There just doesn't seem to be any DOS CD drivers out there that will run this thing.

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DAVEINCAPS January 9, 2010 at 15:28:39 Pacific

There was another driver, XCDROM.SYS, that some claimed worked. I don't have a link but google should find one. Ubuntu Cheeta, Ubuntu !