Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, wch-tech house-grp.net <wch-t...@house-grp.net> wrote: > > I was wondering if xcdrom.sys is in the freedos installation .iso. > > If so, what is the full path to it's location? > > If not, I am wondering: > > a) just curious, why not?
Don't know, probably nobody needed it badly enough, or nobody thought to put it there. FD 1.1's .iso was done very quickly by a very small group (hi, Bernd!). > b) where are the notes (besides the man page) describing utilization of > the file and where to get it? > > c) is there an "official" copy of the file? > > d) where is the "official" repository for the file? Oops, now I see that you're saying "xcdrom" [sic] and not one of the various forks. It's a complicated history, but maybe I'm misremembering. Jack Ellis originally wrote various "drivers", and XCDROM was one of them. IIRC, it lacked some special support (SATA? PATA?), so some outside people forked it and made GCDROM (and XGCDROM). http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/gcdrom/ IIRC, Jack has long since disavowed those old ("buggy") versions, and nowadays you're pretty much expected to use UIDE (etc). http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/ However, I've not heard from him lately, so I don't know if he's going to continue developing them or not. Color me pessimistic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
