Point well taken about diskinit and a consistent drive assignment,
though in this case it will probably not matter.
I don't have any plan to boot CDROM images on this -- the FDBOOTCD.ISO
command was just part of the auto-installed configuration.
If I substitute SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,X /Q in both locations below, I then
can access the drive as Y: (the same behavior as FDCD0001,D resulting in
access as E:).
What I don't understand is why I have to unload SHSUCDX and then re-run
the same two commands as above the unload.
On 5/18/2015 2:58 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <http://SHCDX86.COM>
/D:CDROM001,X /Q
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:04 AM, John Hupp
<free...@prpcompany.com
<mailto: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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