Re: Pure DOS boot disks can't see my old IDE DVD-ROM drive?

Ant wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't know if it is my brand new MSI P43 NEO3-F (MSI-7514) motherboard
> or something else. Others and I are quite stomped. Maybe MSI did
> something different?
>
> Since I still have an old IDE Toshiba DVD-ROM drive (from 2001 I think)
> and it works in Windows XP, I can't seem to use it when booting to pure
> DOS boot with its old oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe driver. I am trying to
> flash my old drive with a newer firmware and it also can't find the
> drive based on http://hijacker.rpc1.org/toshiba_nolimit/#Download
> instructions.
>
> I wonder if my new MSI motherboard change the rules for using IDE
> CD/DVD-ROM drives. CMOS sees the drive just fine under primary master
> (the only IDE drive too) and and PC can boot bootable CDs just fine, but
> DOS boot doesn't see this drive. However, Norton Ghost 2003 DOS can see
> it. Am I missing something? It has been a while since I used DOS boot
> with its CD support.
>
> You can see http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt for
> the primary computer specifications. Thank you in advance.

When I made myself an MSDOS boot floppy, oakcdrom didn't work for me,
but I downloaded XCDROM and that one seemed to work. And there are
other solutions besides XCDROM.

Paul

Ant wrote:
> On 1/2/2009 2:19 PM PT, Paul typed:
>
>> Ant wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I don't know if it is my brand new MSI P43 NEO3-F (MSI-7514)
>>> motherboard or something else. Others and I are quite stomped. Maybe
>>> MSI did something different?
>>>
>>> Since I still have an old IDE Toshiba DVD-ROM drive (from 2001 I
>>> think) and it works in Windows XP, I can't seem to use it when
>>> booting to pure DOS boot with its old oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe
>>> driver. I am trying to flash my old drive with a newer firmware and
>>> it also can't find the drive based on
>>> http://hijacker.rpc1.org/toshiba_nolimit/#Download instructions.
>>>
>>> I wonder if my new MSI motherboard change the rules for using IDE
>>> CD/DVD-ROM drives. CMOS sees the drive just fine under primary master
>>> (the only IDE drive too) and and PC can boot bootable CDs just fine,
>>> but DOS boot doesn't see this drive. However, Norton Ghost 2003 DOS
>>> can see it. Am I missing something? It has been a while since I used
>>> DOS boot with its CD support.
>>>
>>> You can see http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm.../computers.txt
>>> for the primary computer specifications. Thank you in advance.
>>
>> When I made myself an MSDOS boot floppy, oakcdrom didn't work for me,
>> but I downloaded XCDROM and that one seemed to work. And there are
>> other solutions besides XCDROM.
>
> Where are you finding these alternatives beside XCDROM?

I can see another one, GCDROM, which is for a SATA CDROM drive.

http://marktsai0316.googlepages.com/gcdromfordos

I stopped when I found one that worked.

You can find pages that discuss the topic of building MSDOS
floppies, and they'll mention other options. The DOS floppy
was part of something else I was trying to do, so what was
important was getting past the floppy stage. It must have
taken me half the day, before I had a boot floppy that
wouldn't hang in mid-boot.

Paul

> You can find pages that discuss the topic of building MSDOS
> floppies, and they'll mention other options. The DOS floppy
> was part of something else I was trying to do, so what was
> important was getting past the floppy stage. It must have
> taken me half the day, before I had a boot floppy that
> wouldn't hang in mid-boot.

I just use a Win98 CD and it loads DOS drivers for the CD-ROM.
I can create a DOS boot floppy from the CD and it works fine.

Tom Lake