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From: cab3@uafhp.uark.edu (Chad A. Bersche)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 and CD-ROM
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Date: 18 Jun 91 23:29:39 GMT
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bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott) writes:

>wiggins@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
>
>>Hi!
>
>>I hope someone can help me out. I Just upgraded to DOS 5.0 from DOS 4.01
>>on my 386SX clone. My problem in a nutshell is that now DOS wont recognize
>>my CHINON CDS431 CD-ROM drive.
>
>>You can attach to the drive, but when you try to perform any IO such as
>>DIR, DOS returns "Invalid Drive."
>
>>The drive worked well under DOS 4.01, and I have changed nothing else besides
>>the OS. My MS CDROM Extensions are version 2.10. Do I have to upgrade my MSCDX?
>
>Yes.  From what I remember, you will have to go back to your CD-ROM hardware
>supplier/manufacturer to get an upgrade for the Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions.
>
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I just placed DOS 5.0 on my machine as well running an Amdek CD-ROM.  When I
first tried it under DOS 5.0 it would not access the drive.  This can be easily
remedied by simply running the setver command.  I used the following command
line (while in the same directory as setver):
  setver mscdex.exe 4.01
I chose 4.01 since it worked fine under myu DOS 4.01 version.  You will then
need to install the setver in your config.sys (preferrably one of the first
devices to be loaded) and it should then function as normal (at least mine now
does).  I'd love to get ahold of later CD-ROM extensions, but Amdek has
abandoned the CD-ROM business, and consequently I'm outta luck.

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