Hi!
There's a script that gets called from FDAUTO that tries several drivers
-- why wouldn't that work? And why did it work during install?
Because only the open source ones actually got installed automatically?
There CD also has an ELTORITO.SYS driver it will try to use.
El Torito often only works for the CD/DVD from which one has booted.
If UDVD2 does not detect the drive, the controller might be AHCI.
You could use AHCICD, which got open sourced after the author
Rudolph Loew passed away, but unfortunately, he has not been
able to update all documentation after his death, so the way
in which AHCICD and his other software became open source was
not accepted by this distro and you have to download things
separately by hand. There is a mirror on archive.org here
https://archive.org/download/rloewelectronics.com
The HTTPS certificate of the original site has expired, but I
think it is an acceptable risk to visit the site nevertheless:
https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/AHCICD/1.1/
As you can see, you can find the binary, documentation and
sources there :-)
However, the license.txt and readme etc. still are originals,
so they still say the software is copyrighted. Only the main
start page tells otherwise:
https://rloewelectronics.com/
WELCOME
To the memorial homepage of
R. Loew Electronics Consulting
Rudolph Loew (Rudy) passed away on September 11th, 2019.
This site is maintained by his family to archive his work and
make it available to anyone who is interested in pursuing
further endeavors. You can view the original un-modified site
here. Please do not try to make any purchases, all of Rudy's
projects will be made available (including source code)
as time permits.
Apart from AHCICD, Rudolph has written CDTOOLS, a DLLHOOK
redirector, ENCRYPT for encrypted disks, FILE64 to support
large files on Win98, KICKWORK, RAMDISK, REPACKER, RFDISK
(a partitioning tool), RFORMAT, PATCHATA / PATCH137 to get
Win98/95/ME to support disks > 137 GB, PATCHMEM to let
Win9x work on PC with > 0.5 GB RAM, SATA, SHELL32 to add
SHGetFolder functions, TBPLUS, TRIM and WDMEX. TBPLUS is
a tool to get Win98 and MSDOS7 to support > 512 Byte per
Sector and possibly also GPT partitioned drives. So most
of his tools are Windows related, but some are for DOS.
Regards, Eric
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