Re: [Freedos-user] xcdrom.sys

2015-01-18 Thread wch-tech house-grp.net

 
  Thanks for the help everyone. I have done a bit of reading (thus the thread about 2 help sites) and find that my knowledge was incomplete (it is only less incomplete now). 
  I see now that there are a number of later drivers which should be used instead of xcdrom.sys.
  Bill
  
  
   On January 18, 2015 at 4:24 PM Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:Hi,On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, wch-tech house-grp.netwch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: I was wondering if xcdrom.sys is in the freedos installation .iso. If so, what is the full path to its location? If not, I am wondering: a) just curious, why not?Dont know, probably nobody needed it badly enough, or nobody thoughtto put it there. FD 1.1s .iso was done very quickly by a very smallgroup (hi, Bernd!). b) where are the notes (besides the man page) describing utilization of the file and where to get it? c) is there an official copy of the file? d) where is the official repository for the file?Oops, now I see that youre saying xcdrom [sic] and not one of thevarious forks. Its a complicated history, but maybe Immisremembering.Jack Ellis originally wrote various drivers, and XCDROM was one ofthem. IIRC, it lacked some special support (SATA? PATA?), so someoutside people forked it and made GCDROM (and XGCDROM).http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/gcdrom/IIRC, Jack has long since disavowed those old (buggy) versions, andnowadays youre pretty much expected to use UIDE (etc).http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/However, Ive not heard from him lately, so I dont know if hes goingto continue developing them or not. Color me pessimistic.--New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA.GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn.Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth.Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant.http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet___Freedos-user mailing listFreedos-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
  
 


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Re: [Freedos-user] xcdrom.sys

2015-01-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi,

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, wch-tech house-grp.net
wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote:

 I was wondering if xcdrom.sys is in the freedos installation .iso.

 If so, what is the full path to it's location?

 If not, I am wondering:

   a) just curious, why not?

Don't know, probably nobody needed it badly enough, or nobody thought
to put it there. FD 1.1's .iso was done very quickly by a very small
group (hi, Bernd!).

   b) where are the notes (besides the man page) describing utilization of
 the file and where to get it?

   c) is there an official copy of the file?

   d) where is the official repository for the file?

Oops, now I see that you're saying xcdrom [sic] and not one of the
various forks. It's a complicated history, but maybe I'm
misremembering.

Jack Ellis originally wrote various drivers, and XCDROM was one of
them. IIRC, it lacked some special support (SATA? PATA?), so some
outside people forked it and made GCDROM (and XGCDROM).

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/gcdrom/

IIRC, Jack has long since disavowed those old (buggy) versions, and
nowadays you're pretty much expected to use UIDE (etc).

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/

However, I've not heard from him lately, so I don't know if he's going
to continue developing them or not. Color me pessimistic.

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