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First post, by Miasmark

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Some links of what I have found so far:
Overview of MO "Helper" 32
http://www.microstaff.co.jp/info/mohelp32.html
MSDRVR.sys switches for config.sys
http://www.microstaff.co.jp/foruser/options/msdrvr.html
A partial driver. No format or ASPI Device scanner and may be not final version 1.10 since it appears to be unable to access FAT 32 under DOS "7.1"
https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=78320
Download Page for Microstaff:
http://www.microstaff.co.jp/shop/index.html#shop_mohelp32

So far I have been able to use the DOS drivers that were for LF-DXXX DVD-RAM above to create 2 drives. Unable so far to read but I haven't found a way to format DVD-RAM discs FAT16(Not that I really want to since 2gb limitation on a 4.7gb disc.

I think the MO "helper" 32 above is a later release of the same sort of drivers and can read FAT 32 but it's behind a username and password locked program. At the very least a removable disk formatter compatible with DVD RAM disks in DOS would be more useful.

Hopefully somebody can help either get into the installer above or provide an unprotected archive the files contained.

Thanks for all you do.

Reply 1 of 1, by Miasmark

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whoops forgot to update this.
I managed to get a hold of someone by the name of [google translated]Yoshiken Sakamoto[end] who answered the email from the Microstaff website and was able to provide me the driver/software I was looking for. it was a little rough but I believe he agreed to allow this to be on the internet free and unsupported. So I uploaded it to Archive.
https://archive.org/details/dvdramdosfat32

edit: whoa, hold on! I barely even put in why any of this happened. so why did I[should you] care? This allows you to put roughly 9.4gb[4.7 per side] of data on a storage disc. Most of my DOS systems can be backed up on a single side of a double sided disc without compression. On top of that, if you have an optical drive on your modern computer it can read and write to DVD RAM discs formatted FAT32.

The double sided caddy feels like flippies to me too.