I used XCDROM and SHSUCDX 3.03D for some months (since their release) in this computer without problems, mostly under DRDOS, but a few times also under MSDOS and FREEDOS. This machine does not have any other O/S; uses only DOS. I experimented them lately in another machine, which uses Windows 98 as its default O/S and found that under DOS only, whether it is FREEDOS (from floppy) or MSDOS (stopping autoexec.bat before the WIN command), the CD drive responds so slowly that SHSUCDX times out and issues the "Abort,Retry,Fail" message at every attempt at access. In a DOS window, access to the CD is normal. The CD drive is the same in both machines (I moved it from the first to the second) and in both it is/was connected as slave in the same cable with an HD. The main difference between the machines is that the former has an ISA-only motherboard, with an IDE adapter card, while the latter has a PCI+ISA motherboard, with the IDE adpater on-board. Does anyone have an idea of what is causing this? Regards JAS
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