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hi every ONE, I need some help, I have a an old computer and its runing windows 3.1, what I need help with making the cdrom work on windows3.1 oe make it on dosYou need a cdrom driver for MSDOS and some cdroms require a certain driver, instead of a generic drive.
In config.sys you add something like this with any switches you need.

device=c:\dos\atapi.sys

The drive has to be SET properly in hardware - with cable/chip select or master/slave jumpers.Quote from: andreamillspaugh on June 25, 2013, 09:36:31 PM

hi every one, I need some help, I have a an old computer and its runing windows 3.1, what I need help with making the cdrom work on windows3.1 oe make it on dos

With an IDE drive, you can use various generic drivers. One of the more common is OAKCDROM.SYS.

in config.sys, you need to load the driver:

Code: [Select]DEVICE=C:\DOS\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:OAKCD
(You can use DEVICEHIGH as well).

Then you need to use MSCDEX.EXE to associate and 'mount' the driver as a DISK drive:

Code: [Select]mscdex /D:OAKCD /L:E

Yes, that's good advice there, BC.


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