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Hi. I've been buggering around this week with an old PC I have at home. I did only have PC DOS 2000 on it, and although it's got a CD-ROM drive I've lost the drivers disk for it. Anyway I wiped the drive, got MS-DOS 6.22 on it then installed windows 3.1 on it last night and now I need to get the cd-rom working (which is a standard IDE setup). Anyway, it's been a very long time since I used win3.1 and I can't remember exactly what you're supposed to do to get a cd-rom to work on it. I'm presuming I just need some 'universal' DOS drivers (I can't be arsed to crack the thing open and check to see what make the drive is). Does anyone know where I can knab some free CD-ROM drivers for DOS? I did search actually although the links I came across were all dead. Thanks.
This one works in almost all cases. It's not a dead link, either.http://www.teac.com/DSPD/downloads/drivers/atapicd.exe
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Allrighty then. Thanks for that, I'll give them a go. Hmm, I was going to download these oak universal drivers but this powerload site is dead. It's always the damn same. Wheneven I suddenly decide I need something, that particular something is always on only one website which just happens to be down at the time I need it.
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A few here - assuming it's an IDE drive, vide-cdd.sys is pretty 'universal'
CD-ROM Driver Installation ProcedureYou are here
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That one seems to work a lot better than the other one. Actually isn't that that oak tech uni driver I wanted anyway? Oh good, thanks for that!
Now all I have to do is fix this damn crash that occurs with the mouse drivers in DOS and I can finaly play this old game.
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This one uses about 5K of RAM while the 'oak' (oakcdrom.sys) uses about 25K - it can make a big difference
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FWIW:
Just curious, why did you delete PCDOS2K in favor of MSDOS 6.22? (Personally, I'd have stuck with DOS2K)...
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It was a trial and error thing I was doing. Previoulsy, I'd located some windows 95b floppy disks, only they were incomplete and some were corrupted. I attempted to create some new floppies using the cab files from a windows 95b cd-rom I had. All signs suggested it should work but when I tried to copy the files I was getting sector not found errors. The file would copy, but the win95 setup still wouldn't recognise the new disks.
There's still some things I need to do which, but I figured I might have better luck if I used ms-dos, or maybe even windows 3.1. Although I gave up before I got to that stage and decided to prep the computer to play some of my old dos games instead.
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