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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: HELP: How to lie to MSCDEX.EXE
- Message-ID: <wiegand.716049001@lido16>
- Keywords: CD-ROM, MSCDEX, DOS_VERSION
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <6194@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Distribution: "world"
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:30:01 GMT
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- rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
-
- >I'm trying to install a PROCOM CD-ROM (a funny bus Sony) on an OS/2
- >system. The device driver pcd650s.sys loads ok and doesn't complain,
- >but mscdex.exe doesn't seem to respond to reasonable settings of
- >DOS_VERSION. It always reports "Incorrect DOS version", as if it was
- >written to detect and not run under OS/2 (:-)).
-
- >Any hints?
-
- >--
- >Josh Rovero (rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil) | or Internet 5346p@cc.nps.navy.mil
- >Department of Oceanography, Code OC/Rv | Bitnet 5346p@NAVPGS
- >Naval Postgraduate School |
- >Monterey, CA 93943 (408) 646-2084 |
-
- From what I have heard mscdex.exe doesn't do the version check properly.
- Just another case of Microsoft not following their own specifications.
-
- The only way I know of to access the Sony bus CD-ROMs is to boot a "real"
- copy of DOS in a window (not OS/2's DOS, but a real copy of PC-DOS, MS-DOS,
- or DR-DOS). Inside this DOS session you can load the CD-ROM drivers.
-
-
- --
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- uunet!motcid!wiegand
- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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