[SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed May 23 23:49:10 CEST 2012


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



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