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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Win32 Port
- Date: 04 Jul 1996 04:02:41 -0600
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- >>>>> "Nik" == Nik Ahmad Fahmi <nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my> writes:
- In article <836364816.44snx@abdulla.pc.my> nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my (Nik Ahmad Fahmi) writes:
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- Nik> In article <ufraqyeq50.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> ctm@ardi.com writes:
- >>
- 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.
-
- Nik> I just installed RedHat Linux 3.0.3 as well and tried out the
- Nik> Linux_Elf version of 1.99 .... the CD-ROM got recognised
- Nik> without any extra efforts.
-
- Yes, Linux is *so* much easier to program than DOS is.
-
- >> 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.
-
- Nik> It can see neither formats... nor my other DOS HD partitions
- Nik> except the partitions it's being installed to and if I put a
- Nik> Mac formatted disk in my Zip drive.
-
- Nik> FYI, I have the following drive letters:
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- Nik> Drive Type Recognised by Executor_DOS
- Nik> ----- ------------- --------------------------
- DOS format MAC format
- Nik> C: IDE HD No N/A
- Nik> D: 1st Part
- Nik> on SCSI HD No N/A
- Nik> E: 2nd Part
- Nik> on SCSI HD Yes N/A
- Nik> F: Iomega Zip
- Nik> SCSI version No Yes
- Nik> G: IDE ATAPI
- Nik> CD-ROM (6X) No No
- Nik> H: SCSI CD-ROM (2X) No No
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-
- Nik> Note: a) E: is recognised as it's the partition Executor 2
- Nik> is installed to
-
- Nik> b) Under DOS mode, I can only get H: working as only one copy
- of MSCDEX is allowed to run.
-
- Nik> Thanks. --
-
- Are you running Executor 2 beta 1, or 1.99q<something>? The inability
- to see your other drives sounds like a bug that was in the last
- version of 1.99q, but is not present in E2beta1.
-
- Nik> --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Nik> | Nik Ahmad Fahmi | e-mail: nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my | |
- Nik> Fax:+60-3-2530801 (O) | 74744.1202@compuserve.com |
- Nik> -------------------------------------------------------------------
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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