From: "Matthias Paul" 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 Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul ! My eMail address has changed. For some time ! Ubierstrasse 28 ! mails to former ! D-50321 BRUEHL ! will be forwarded to the new address. ! eMail: WWW : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokger.html ------------------------------------------------------------------