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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:24:12 -0600
From: Mike Hostetler <thehaas AT radiks DOT net>
To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: CD drive woes
Message-ID: <19981216182412.A198@radiks.net>
References: <19981211175444 DOT D957 AT radiks DOT net> <19981216 DOT 025028 DOT 6887 DOT 1 DOT wilmarc1 AT juno DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <19981216.025028.6887.1.wilmarc1@juno.com>; from Marc D. Williams on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:51:45PM -0800
Reply-To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com

Hoorah!  I got it to work.  And, yes, Marc, you did help . . . . 
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:51:45PM -0800, Marc D. Williams wrote:
> 
> >DEVICE=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD002 /P:1F0,14 /P:170,15 /P:1E8,12 
> >/P:168,10
> >
> For curiosity's sake, what do all the /P parms do?
> 

I was curious about this myself.  I did a custom install and that is what
was put in.  After you asked this, I looked at the README file.
/P:xxx,yy is a port number in hex (xxx) and the IRQ of the IDE device in
decimal (yy).  I remembered that vide-cdd.sys detected my drive at 170h,
but I know that the IRQ is set at 12, but up in the /P 's we have
/P:170,15.  I changed it to 170,12 and volia!  It worked.

A mystery still remains on why it worked so easily in Linux and not in
DOS. Oh well.

Marc: I'm still using NWCDEX, but if it gives me trouble I'll switch to
MSCDEX (though I'm not for M$, but if it works . . . ).  And I did send
both my config.sys and autoexec.bat as separate attachments.  It's
interesting that Juno gave you one but not the other. I apologize for
that.

later,

- mikeh

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