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- From: newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold)
- Subject: Re: Use your "unsupported" CD-ROM drive natively with OS/2!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.140007.2998@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug17.194511.27929@inmet.camb.inmet.com> <1992Aug17.221800.7327@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:00:07 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Aug17.221800.7327@actrix.gen.nz> conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.194511.27929@inmet.camb.inmet.com> newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold) writes:
-
- ...
-
- >> So, I copied the CD-ROM driver CDROM.SYS off my HPFS partition into a FAT
- >> parition; load it up under debug. Low and behold. There are a couple of
- >> vendor id strings... So, I just replaced the word "TOSHIBA" with "SONY"
- >> (filling the three remaining letters with spaces) and wrote it out.
- >>
- >> Load up OS/2, copy it back into the HPFS partition, reboot and.. Voila!
- >> The happy-little-camper driver installed itself running my Sony drive.
- >
- >The easiest way is to add the /I parameter (I *think* it's /I), which tells
- >the driver to ignore the manufacturer info.
-
- Ah. That would have been easier indeed.
-
- ...
-
- >I can't remember which bit of documentation I read about the CDROM.SYS
- >flags though - probably one of the (many) INF files available through IBM.
-
- Ha! This is my other gripe about OS/2. The supplied documentation SUCKS.
- Even Microsoft provided references about command-line options, etc.
-
- It seems to me that OS/2 is very power and infinitely customizable. The
- trouble is, I have no way of learning what the 5001 options do or what
- option to use to get something done. The on-line help, while it seems
- "complete" still doesn't have this stuff. That and the search system really
- sucks -- anytime I want to try and find out about, say the CD-ROM driver,
- I have to page through the damn thing manually. Then I usually give up
- before I find anything useful...
-
- -Chris
-
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