Subj : RE: CD-ROM Access
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Lionel Hasselhoff
Date : Sat May 31 2003 12:00 am

>> vide-cdd.sys is available in many places... himem.sys 
>> and mscdex.exe are specific to the version of DOS you
>> are booting from...


Okay -- I checked the 486 that is running W95 (the 
computer that I made the DOS boot floppy on) and it 
is missing vide-cdd.sys.  It used to be attached to 
a LAN and the only CD drive it had was an external
parallel port drive.  However, I put an ATAPI 
CD-ROM in the 486, and it is working fine w/o the 
vide-cdd.sys file.  Is this file for DOS only?  Or is 
there some substitute running on the 486 which I could 
copy to the boot floppy in place of vide-cdd.sys?  (It 
does have all of the other files on it, BTW).

I also double checked the W95 CD, and in the 
drivers/stocdr/iosupd directory there are three files 
(ios.vxd, qfcheck.exe and qfecheck.hlp), only one of 
which appears to be a driver, and none of which are 
vide-cdd.sys.  Is ios.vxd a possible substitute for 
vide-cdd.sys, or is it an archive of all kinds of drivers
that has to be opened in the installation process,
or something along those lines?

Any solutions for the missing cd driver file problem?

Thanks,

Lionel


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