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- MetaDOS 2.3
- These are the essential elements to get any SCSI CD ROM drive going on
- an Atari TT. You may use it 'as is'. Don't expect any updates, because
- we are putting all our effort in a new driver which will work under
- MultiTOS. Before that driver is available you might spend some time
- with MetaDOS 2.3.
-
- This release fixes only some small problems present in previous
- versions.
-
- FILES
- \AUTO\CDARGEN.BOS
- Generalized version of physical device driver. This driver only
- supports SCSI CD ROMs connected to the SCSI port of the Atari TT
- (or the Atari 'CDAR 504' connected to the ACSI port of any Atari
- computer with ACSI port).
-
- \AUTO\HSMAY86.DOS
- Version 1.92 driver for CD-ROMs in High Sierra format (usually not
- needed).
-
- \AUTO\ISO9660F.DOS
- Version 1.92 driver for CD-ROMs in ISO 9660 format (the ISO format
- is the 'real' final version of the original High Sierra
- specification).
-
- \AUTO\METADOS.PRG
- Version 2.3 of MetaDOS.
-
- \AUTO\CONFIG.SYS
- Configuration file. You will have to edit this file to assign
- drive numbers and/or drive letters. In addition, you can edit the
- path names for all driver files (if \AUTO\BOOT\ isn't ok for you).
-
- INSTALLATION
- Copy METADOS.PRG, CONFIG.SYS, CDARGEN.BOS, ISO9660F.DOS and
- HSMAY86.DOS into the AUTO folder, edit the ASCII file CONFIG.SYS for
- your specific settings. Reboot.
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS
- METADOS.PRG
- Some programs do not work properly when MetaDOS is installed
- (because they are violating the rules for register saving for
- GEMDOS calls). Contact the programmers of these programs to get
- them fixed.
-
- Some programs won't access drive letters beyond P: (MetaDOS can
- install drive letters up to Z:).
-
- Technical problems: (1) It's not possible to redirect GEMDOS
- standard input/output to MetaDOS files (only applies to people
- using command line shells). (2) Files on MetaDOS devices aren't
- closed when a program bombs or is aborted with CTRL-C (this is
- usually no problem with CD-ROMs, because they are read only
- media).
-
- ISO9660F.DOS and HSMAY86.DOS
- Sometimes, media change doesn't work properly. If this happens to
- you, eject the disk, insert it again and wait a few seconds before
- the next try.
-
- CDARGEN.BOS
- The old audio commands (documented in the developer's
- documentation) are only supported for backwards compatibility
- only; some flags do not work at all.
-
- Technical problems: the MetaDOS XBIOS calls that cause I/O with an
- ACSI device require that buffers are allocated in ST compatible
- RAM (see Mxalloc documentation).
-
- Some CD ROM drives need special initializations to be able to
- access disks in XA format (Photo CD). CDARGEN.BOS has no special
- support for those drives.
-
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