Subj : CD-ROM Access
To   : Lionel Hasselhoff
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat May 31 2003 01:27 pm

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

 LH> Okay -- I checked the 486 that is running W95 (the
 LH> computer that I made the DOS boot floppy on) and it
 LH> is missing vide-cdd.sys.  It used to be attached to

its not "missing"... it probably used another .sys driver at one time or 
another... it doesn't have to be called vide-cdd.sys... atapi.sys was another 
but the option switches may be different... and if you're looking on a box that 
already has win9x on it, then you won't find it anyway because win9x doesn't 
use .sys drivers in the config.sys file... this stuff is years before win9x was 
even a spark of a though...

 LH> a LAN and the only CD drive it had was an external
 LH> parallel port drive.  However, I put an ATAPI
 LH> CD-ROM in the 486, and it is working fine w/o the
 LH> vide-cdd.sys file.  Is this file for DOS only?  Or is

yes, DOS only...

[trim]

 LH> Any solutions for the missing cd driver file problem?

nope... just locate one that works... do you have email access that i can 
attach it to you? i'm hunting for the boot floppy that came with many win9x 
systems... it has many .sys drivers on it for all kinds of cd drives... the 
only time i've really needed anything different than the above one (which i 
found to work the best over a wide range of drives) was SCSI drivers for those 
systems with SCSI harddrives and/or cdrom drives...

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