What was the config.sys command for the atapicd.sys cdrom driver?

[Do'Urden]

Hey

My friend is in some trouble and I can't remember the command for the CD driver in the config.sys.

It went something like this:
devicehigh=[drive]:/[path]/atapicd.sys /d:[DriverID thingy(whatever ja want)]

But I'm not sure if it was /d or something else and if there were some other variables to add or not. I used to do this alot (heh, even created menus & submenus and could go back and forth in them ) but it's just slipped my mind at the moment.

I remember how the mscdex command was in autoexec.bat, this is how I usually used it:

lh /l:[what highmemory area and amount] [drive]:\[path]\mscdex.exe /d:[same DriverID as in atapi driver] /e /m:45 /k /s /v

I hope you can help me!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Henry Kuo]

This is what I have in config.sys:

DEVICE =\(path)\atapicd.sys /D:MSCD000 /P:170, 15

This is what I have in autoexec.bat:

C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:15

If I remember right, 170 is like port or something. It can be from 80 to 250 (something like that)

 

[Do'Urden]

Thanks! That's all I needed to know.


I would add the /E in your autoexec.bat. As things are now, it is using your conventional memory for the buffer (/M:15 is the buffer command, you can increase it (recommended) after you add /E) wich isn't all that good. It's not nearly as much a thing to have as much conventional memory free now as it was before but still it is good not to waste it when you don't have to. The /E will let it use the extended memory area for the buffer wich you should have quite enough of (I have about 255mb, 1mb goes into i.e. the conventional memory and uppermemory) for this (the buffer is only a few k's)

Thanks!

 

[Henry Kuo]

oic, thanks for the info. I was still a small kid when I messed with DOS system. I didn't really know what those extension means, and just follow instruction. Haha... I will make a note of that. Thanks a lot. And hope your friend can get the CDROM running.