Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 18:03:05 MST
Message-Id: <9703190103.AA11469@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Jason M. Daniels)
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] various things
Reply-To: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu



>
>On 16 Mar 97 at 16:29, jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Are you changing the signature in AUTOEXEC.BAT on the NWCDEX line as well?
>
>My config.sys contains:
>
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\CLUTTER\MAXIDE.SYS /D:MAXCD001
>
>and autoexec.bat contains:
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>LH NWCDEX /s /d:maxcd001 /m:6 /v
>
>and it all works!
>
>> This leads me to believe there's a dependency existing
>> between sbide.sys and MSCD001 or at least sbide.sys and MSCDxxx.
>
>This is quite unlikely IMHO...
>

There is no dependency. My old MS-DOS v6 multiconfig had a different 
CD-ROM id for each config that used the CD-ROM. MSCD001, IDECD001, 
SBIDE001, and XCFG001 all worked with my SBIDE.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE.

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