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Re: Win32 Port



In article <ufraqyeq50.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> ctm@ardi.com writes:
>
>    Nik> Would your Win32 port support CDFS instead of mscdex for
>    Nik> recognising the CD-ROM? I'm probably missing something when I
>    Nik> use Exec_Dos beta1 coz' it wouldn't recognise my CD and also
>    Nik> all my other dos drive ... it is crippled?  I tried executor
>    Nik> with the -dosdrives and -macdrives options but none work.
>
>We'll use whatever we officially should use to access raw CD-ROM
>sectors in win32.  I haven't looked into it enough to know that it's
>CDFS, but it definitely isn't MSCDEX.

I just installed RedHat Linux 3.0.3 as well and tried out the Linux_Elf
version of 1.99 .... the CD-ROM got recognised without any extra efforts.

>
>Can it see DOS CDs and not Mac CDs?  That's the most common failure
>these days and it appears to be due to the version of MSCDEX that is
>provided by Windows '95.

It can see neither formats... nor my other DOS HD partitions except the
partitions it's being installed to and if I put a Mac formatted disk in
my Zip drive.

FYI, I have the following drive letters:

    Drive       Type        Recognised by Executor_DOS
    -----   -------------   --------------------------
                            DOS format    MAC format
      C:     IDE HD            No            N/A
      D:     1st Part
             on SCSI HD        No            N/A
      E:     2nd Part       
             on SCSI HD        Yes           N/A
      F:     Iomega Zip     
             SCSI version      No            Yes
      G:     IDE ATAPI
             CD-ROM (6X)       No            No
      H:     SCSI CD-ROM (2X)  No            No


Note: a) E: is recognised as it's the partition Executor 2 is installed
         to
      b) Under DOS mode, I can only get H: working as only one copy
         of MSCDEX is allowed to run.

Thanks.
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