Kenwood TrueX 52 DOS drivers?

[Tired of the Bull]

I'm trying to locate DOS drivers for this drive for a friend and was wondering if anyone here has any ideas where I can find them.

Thanks

 

[Modeps]

usually the manufacturer's website will have them... i get my kenwood drivers from their site.

 

[Tired of the Bull]

I haven't verified that they aren't on the site I just took my friends word that he checked there and all the normal places like windrivers with no luck. I hope he hasn't hung me out to dry here. (I'll check the kenwood site.)

 

[Tired of the Bull]

OK, now its verified. Kenwood's support page for computer items is down.

So my request remains, if anyone has these drivers I would really appreciate the help.

 

[Vinny N]

Any old generic dos cdrom drivers should work. The oakcdrom.sys(possibly oemcdrom.sys depending on your version of 98) from the Windows 98 boot disk should work fine. Or if you have a Win95B/C boot floppy it might have VIDE-CDD.SYS.

 

[WildDreamer]

I'm not sure if these work, but there are some true 52x drivers located here.

 

[Tired of the Bull]

Vinny_N,

If you use those drivers what type of performance do you get out of the drive?

When I used thoses for my 50X drive the speed was pathetic. Did I do something wrong?

 

[Vinny N]

I don't think there's anything special about the drivers a manufacturer provides, that's why Microsoft can provide generic drivers.

Were you copying things to the hard drive from the CD-ROM drive?
Are you running SMARTDRV?
There's a dramatic improvement in cd-rom to hard drive transfers when using smart drive.
(windows setup usually loads it, but when I'm doing a windows install, I always run it first if I intend to copy the .CABS
to the hard drive, it's a dramatic difference)
It should work fine, was your 50X a TrueX?
If not, the only reason it performs nicely under Windows is the buffering/caching that windows provides.
This same buffering/caching is supplied to hard drives too. Try boot clean off a floppy without smart drive
and try to delete a huge file on your hard drive or a thousand small files. It'll be a long wait.
Try it with smart drive, should almost be as fast as it is in windows.

 

[Tired of the Bull]

Vinny_N

Thanks for the info.