To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] various things Message-ID: <19970316.191459.8087.0.chambersb@juno.com> References: From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 22:10:31 EST Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:29:02 -0500 (EST) jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com writes: >The reason my cdrom signature remains MSCD001 is that others don't >work on >this machine under od. >The cdrom drive signature comes right after the /d: switch. >When I changed that signature my cdrom drive no longer installed. >This leads me to believe there's a dependency existing >between sbide.sys and MSCD001 or at least sbide.sys and MSCDxxx. >The same may prove to be the case with other cdrom drivers. >Of interest to support pople would be the answer to the question >what error if any is generated by od when it gets to the cdrom >statement >in config.sys. If this is failing and no error message is coming up >I'd >say that's rather serious. Don't you have to change the command lines of both drivers when you change the name of the drive like that? (On my system, thoes two drivers are sbide.sys and mscdex.exe) If you change just one but not the other, it won't work - I think this is to allow users more than one cd drive on the same machine. ...Chambers God gave us relatives. Fortunately we can choose our friends.