On 3/4/2021 11:20 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
ERROR: Unable to initialize CD-ROM drive
after trying to load UDVD2 (3-05-2015).
of course it would be cool to read the error message form UDVD2
itself, otherwise "ERROR:bla" is not very helpful ;<<<
Well, I doubt that there is anything else useful in the output
UDVD2, 3-05-2015. CD/DVD name is FDCD0001.
Nothing to use. UDVD2 not loaded!
Driver not loaded
No drives assigned.
3 drive(s) available.
ERROR: Unable to initialize CD-ROM drive.
a) UDVD2 works on 99+% of existing machines, otherwise we
would know it. we simply don't know if OAKCDROM.SYS also works on 99+%
of machines, or - more impotantly - on more machines then UDVD2
I have yet to see a machine with a standard ATAPI (not one of those
early Creative sound card proprietary ones) that would NOT work with
OAKCDROM.SYS! Same with LG's GSCDROM.SYS.
b) being open source, Jack or others could at least in theory fix
UDVD2. probably unfeasable for OAKCDROM (should it fail)
Well, who is the author of it anyway? There is not a single line in
either the (.asm) source code nor in the documentation that mentioned
author nor license...
c) running
DEVLOAD OAKCDROM.SYS some arguments
should fix your problems
Yes, I can fix this problem myself, that is not the issue. It is that
this all seems to trip potential new users right at the start.
I would also wondering why the C: drive, though offered to be formatted,
is at the same time not "SYStemized", including a baseline config.sys
and autoexec.bat as well as a base FREEDOS folder before starting
FDIMPLES to install further packages. To me, this seems to be the next
logical step (and what I just did manually to move on on this system)...
Ralf
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