If you have other partitions they will always be "seen" by FreeDOS diskinit
before any of your drivers are loaded therefore it is best to reassign your
drive letter. FreeDOS 1.1 uses a default of X: and I follow that
assignment. This will result in a consistent drive assignment for your CD.
Also unless you plan on regularly booting CDROM images as opposed to real
"burned" CD-ROMs, the simplified files I sent are adequate for everyday
use.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:48 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
> Taking the next obvious step, I can even successfully condense the last
> 5 lines as below (which lets me access the drive as E:, not D:), but I have
> not succeeded beyond that.
>
> =======================
> REM (some commands)
>
> SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
> LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO
>
> REM (some commands)
>
> REM DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001 /S5
>
> DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
> SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q
>
> SHSUCDX /QQ /U
> DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
> SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q
> =======================
>
> (And yes, fdconfig.sys does have LASTDRIVE=Z.)
>
>
>
> On 5/18/2015 2:17 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> Thanks, that sort of works. Based on the cdrom.bat commands, this snippet
> from my current autoexec.bat works:
>
> =======================
> REM (some commands)
>
> SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
> LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO
>
> REM (some commands)
>
> REM DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001 /S5
>
> DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001
> SHSUCDX /QQ /~ /D:?SHSU-CDR,D /D:?SHSU-CDH,D /D:?FDCD0001,D /D:?FDCD0002,D
> /D:?FDCD0003,D
>
> SHSUCDX /QQ /U
> DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
> SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q
> =======================
>
> With this, I can access the cdrom as E: (not D:).
>
> But I have not been able to merge the last 5 command into just 2 or 3.
> Among many attempts, I think I tried just running the last 3 of the 5 and
> that failed as before. What am I not seeing?
>
> On 5/18/2015 10:53 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> One of these two should work. These are batch files so rename them
> accordingly.
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it a slave or secondary master drive?
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a plain
>>> old IDE CD-ROM.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/18/2015 10:10 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you have a AHCI/SATA CD/DVD drive, try downloading the FreeDOS -
>>>> SATA for Ghost disk here, extract the AHCI.SYS driver and use the following
>>>> configuration.
>>>> @ECHO OFF
>>>> SHCDX86.COM /QQ /U
>>>> IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\AHCI.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H
>>>> IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H
>>>> IF EXIST CDROM001 SHCDX86.COM /D:CDROM001,X /Q
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:04 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried updating to the latest uide.sys from
>>>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/,
>>>>> but
>>>>> I get the same error.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also get the same error with the last version of xcdrom.sys.
>>>>>
>>>>> Next-best solutions?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/16/2015 5:34 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>>>> > Hi, all.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > It's been some years since I've been active on this list, but I hope
>>>>> > you can come through for me again now.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I installed 1.1 from the bootable CD, but from the installed DOS, I
>>>>> > can't access a CD-ROM. I get "Error reading from drive D: data area:
>>>>> > drive not ready."
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I found this for VirtualBox:
>>>>> >
>>>>> http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_12#Known_Bugs:_6._CD_changes_are_not_detected
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For real hardware, is the XCDROM workaround the best solution?
>>>>>
>>>>
>
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