I've got a thinclient running FREEDOS with a PCI Yamaha OPL soundcard as a "real hardware" gaming PC.

The BIOS can recognize USB devices pretty well. Even in MS-DOS 6.22 without any special drivers a USB keyboard and mouse and floppy drive work fine.

I'm having trouble with the CD drive, however. If I boot from it with a Windows 98SE boot CD it boots from it but the drive shows up as "A:" drive (somehow it thinks it's a floppy) and whines that no CD drives were detected.

There's some games I'd like to play on it that need the CD. I know I'm probably not going to get the CD audio to work, but I haven't had any luck getting it to work as a CD drive at all, or even show up as "A:" if I boot from the harddrive.

I've tried Philscomputerlab's DOS starter pack with CD support on real DOS, wasn't recognized.

Could somebody please point me to some info about how to get a generic USB CD drive to work in FREEDOS on a system that has BIOS level USB awareness?

Thank you!