Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
standard IDE cdrom. That type of cdrom has been around for a long time.
dos is even older though, it used to *not* ship with a standard ide cdrom driver. mscdex alone isn't enougth to make it fly, it is some kind if "high level" driver (basically handles iso9660 filesystem I think) which needs another one for the actual hardware access.
Best bet is to grab the one shipped with freedos these days I guess.
Right. Add the CD-ROM-specific device driver to your config.sys.
If you find nothing else then this looks good:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/138.html
//Peter