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SCSI Software Emulation
Name: ensignrickyto Date: June 23, 2006 at 13:40:08 Pacific OS: MS-DOS 6.22 CPU/Ram: 486/4MB Product: IBM
Comment:
I'm running a piece of software that needs to interface with a SCSI CD-ROM but I would like to try and trick it into accessing a network drive instead. Is there a driver or piece of software I can run to make this happen?
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: June 23, 2006 at 20:07:45 Pacific
Reply:
I think there was an old dos command to redirect from the drive the software specifies to another drive.
It was from way back when computers with hard drives were somewhat rare. So all software was run from floppy disks. Because the software would look to the floppy drives to read or write to, running it from a hard drive would cause problems because it wasn't written to be run from there. So this command (whatever it was) would redirect the software to look on the hard drive.
I browsed through a dos book but couldn't find it. If someone happens to remember what it was, it may work to redirect your software to the network drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: June 23, 2006 at 20:27:56 Pacific
Reply:
It must have been the ASSIGN command.
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Response Number 4
Name: jessejames Date: June 24, 2006 at 01:35:11 Pacific
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: June 24, 2006 at 05:57:56 Pacific
Reply:
You can:
subst F: E:\bak\files
But if the app looks for a SCSI controller, all bets are off.
Also, the media descriptor byte may get you.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 6
Name: ensignrickyto Date: June 24, 2006 at 09:36:03 Pacific
Reply:
The software looks at the descriptor from the drive itself. I was hoping for an applicaion like daemon tools for dos where it could be made to emulate an actual SCSI CD-ROM from a source file or files.
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Response Number 7
Name: jessejames Date: June 24, 2006 at 13:33:25 Pacific
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