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Re: Win32 Port
In article <ufraqyeq50.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> ctm@ardi.com writes:
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> Nik> Would your Win32 port support CDFS instead of mscdex for
> Nik> recognising the CD-ROM? I'm probably missing something when I
> Nik> use Exec_Dos beta1 coz' it wouldn't recognise my CD and also
> Nik> all my other dos drive ... it is crippled? I tried executor
> Nik> with the -dosdrives and -macdrives options but none work.
>
>We'll use whatever we officially should use to access raw CD-ROM
>sectors in win32. I haven't looked into it enough to know that it's
>CDFS, but it definitely isn't MSCDEX.
I just installed RedHat Linux 3.0.3 as well and tried out the Linux_Elf
version of 1.99 .... the CD-ROM got recognised without any extra efforts.
>
>Can it see DOS CDs and not Mac CDs? That's the most common failure
>these days and it appears to be due to the version of MSCDEX that is
>provided by Windows '95.
It can see neither formats... nor my other DOS HD partitions except the
partitions it's being installed to and if I put a Mac formatted disk in
my Zip drive.
FYI, I have the following drive letters:
Drive Type Recognised by Executor_DOS
----- ------------- --------------------------
DOS format MAC format
C: IDE HD No N/A
D: 1st Part
on SCSI HD No N/A
E: 2nd Part
on SCSI HD Yes N/A
F: Iomega Zip
SCSI version No Yes
G: IDE ATAPI
CD-ROM (6X) No No
H: SCSI CD-ROM (2X) No No
Note: a) E: is recognised as it's the partition Executor 2 is installed
to
b) Under DOS mode, I can only get H: working as only one copy
of MSCDEX is allowed to run.
Thanks.
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