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- From: rls@tip.wedge.nt.com (Robert L. Smith)
- Subject: Generic CDROM Configuration
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.154008.5658@rock.concert.net>
- Originator: rls@
- Sender: news@rock.concert.net
- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc., RTP, NC
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:40:08 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- My wife, bless her, gave me a CDROM drive for Christmas. I had it
- running under MSDOS within a few hours but had no such luck under OS/2
- 2.0. Under MSDOS I took IBM's generic CDROM driver off the November
- PDK and installed it according to directions. Now when I boot OS/2,
- the following appears shortly after the startup logos:
-
- IBM CD-ROM Device Driver / Version 1.50
- SCSI-DD not found
- SYS1201: The device driver "C:\OS2\SYSTEM\CDROM_G.SYS" specified
- in the DEVICE command on line 71 of the CONFIG.SYS file was
- not installed. Line 71 is ignored.
-
- This may occur because of non-standard setups for my CDROM
- adapter's I/O address, interrupt number or DMA channel (which I had to
- juggle because my system is already loaded with other adapters). But
- this is only a guess because IBM seems to have adopted a policy of
- supplying high-level documentation only. Does anyone know what setup
- configuration the generic driver requires, or if its requirement is
- variable by invocation argument?
- My drive also doesn't work in a DOS window under OS/2. An
- executable named "mscdex.exe", apparently written by Microsoft, came
- with the drive adapter. Its function under MSDOS is to assign the
- CDROM adapter to drive letter E:, which is the next available drive on
- my system, and make it accessible there by other DOS programs. When
- executed in a DOS window under OS/2, it produces the complaint,
- Incorrect DOS version
- This also happened at first under MSDOS, but MSDOS provides a
- separate program, "setver", which eliminates that complaint if invoked
- as a driver in config.sys. Unfortunately, MDOS under OS/2 does not
- contain the setver program, and the DOS 5.0 version will not run under
- OS/2 DOS.
- Yes, I know I should have installed one of the CDROMs and adapters
- that IBM recommends, but my wife didn't know about 'em. If anyone can
- offer advice for the above problems, I'd much appreciate it.
-
- Regards, rLs
-