From:	"Matthias Paul" <MPAUL AT ibh DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:	IBH, RWTH-Aachen
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:59:24 GMT+0100
Subject:	Re: [opendos] cd rom help needed
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-ID:	<23DE3E5438D@ibh.rwth-aachen.de>
Sender:	owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

Hi!

> My cdrom drive normally uses mscdex.exe and the driver's name is
> sbide.sys.  The stuff after the /d: on mscdex line in autoexec.bat is
> usually MSCD001.  To convert this drive's signature would
> /d:NWCD001 work if trying to use nwcdex.exe?

Both, MSCDEX and NWCDEX allow for a user-definable device name string, 
such as MSCD001, MSCD002, ..., OEMCD01, ..., NWCD001.  You don't need 
to change these names, if you don't want to.  All you need to do is, 
give equal device names to your SBIDE.SYS driver and MSCDEX/NWCDEX...,
so that the redirector driver (MSCDEX/NWCDEX) knows to whom it should 
communicate.  Mind, that there could be multiple hardware CD-ROM 
drivers (like SBIDE.SYS) installed, so you can connect the redirector 
to one of them.  To connect it to more hardware drivers at the same 
time, you need to repeat the /D: option.

Matthias

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