John, actually you probably don't need to unload shsucdx, like you I used
that command line from my install (I used the all_cd.iso).
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:29 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
> Point well taken about diskinit and a consistent drive assignment,
> though in this case it will probably not matter.
>
> I don't have any plan to boot CDROM images on this -- the FDBOOTCD.ISO
> command was just part of the auto-installed configuration.
>
> If I substitute SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,X /Q in both locations below, I then
> can access the drive as Y: (the same behavior as FDCD0001,D resulting in
> access as E:).
>
> What I don't understand is why I have to unload SHSUCDX and then re-run
> the same two commands as above the unload.
>
>
> On 5/18/2015 2:58 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> If you have other partitions they will always be "seen" by FreeDOS
> diskinit before any of your drivers are loaded therefore it is best to
> reassign your drive letter. FreeDOS 1.1 uses a default of X: and I follow
> that assignment. This will result in a consistent drive assignment for your
> CD. Also unless you plan on regularly booting CDROM images as opposed to
> real "burned" CD-ROMs, the simplified files I sent are adequate for
> everyday use.
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:48 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
>
>> Taking the next obvious step, I can even successfully condense the last
>> 5 lines as below (which lets me access the drive as E:, not D:), but I have
>> not succeeded beyond that.
>>
>> =======================
>> REM (some commands)
>>
>> SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
>> LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO
>>
>> REM (some commands)
>>
>> REM DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001 /S5
>>
>> DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
>> SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q
>>
>> SHSUCDX /QQ /U
>> DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
>> SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q
>> =======================
>>
>> (And yes, fdconfig.sys does have LASTDRIVE=Z.)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/18/2015 2:17 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, that sort of works. Based on the cdrom.bat commands, this
>> snippet from my current autoexec.bat works:
>>
>> =======================
>> REM (some commands)
>>
>> SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
>> LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO
>>
>> REM (some commands)
>>
>> REM DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001 /S5
>>
>> DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001
>> SHSUCDX /QQ /~ /D:?SHSU-CDR,D /D:?SHSU-CDH,D /D:?FDCD0001,D
>> /D:?FDCD0002,D /D:?FDCD0003,D
>>
>> SHSUCDX /QQ /U
>> DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
>> SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q
>> =======================
>>
>> With this, I can access the cdrom as E: (not D:).
>>
>> But I have not been able to merge the last 5 command into just 2 or 3.
>> Among many attempts, I think I tried just running the last 3 of the 5 and
>> that failed as before. What am I not seeing?
>>
>> On 5/18/2015 10:53 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>>
>> One of these two should work. These are batch files so rename them
>> accordingly.
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it a slave or secondary master drive?
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a plain
>>>> old IDE CD-ROM.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/18/2015 10:10 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you have a AHCI/SATA CD/DVD drive, try downloading the FreeDOS -
>>>>> SATA for Ghost disk here, extract the AHCI.SYS driver and use the
>>>>> following
>>>>> configuration.
>>>>> @ECHO OFF
>>>>> SHCDX86.COM /QQ /U
>>>>> IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\AHCI.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H
>>>>> IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H
>>>>> IF EXIST CDROM001 SHCDX86.COM /D:CDROM001,X /Q
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:04 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried updating to the latest uide.sys from
>>>>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/,
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> I get the same error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also get the same error with the last version of xcdrom.sys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Next-best solutions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/16/2015 5:34 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi, all.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > It's been some years since I've been active on this list, but I hope
>>>>>> > you can come through for me again now.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I installed 1.1 from the bootable CD, but from the installed DOS, I
>>>>>> > can't access a CD-ROM. I get "Error reading from drive D: data
>>>>>> area:
>>>>>> > drive not ready."
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I found this for VirtualBox:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_12#Known_Bugs:_6._CD_changes_are_not_detected
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > For real hardware, is the XCDROM workaround the best solution?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
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