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First post, by brostenen

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I am trying to get an SCSI burner running as an CD-Rom reader under MS-DOS-6.22, using the Adaptec 1542-C controller and 50-pin cable.
I just need guidance on how to install the Driver for accesing the CD-Drive under Dos. Everything is set up correctly...
I can lowlevel format HDD's and I can partiotioning them and do a normal "format c: /u/s" and everything just boot's into basic Dos.
I don't think that the controller supports any boot from optical drives, so I must only be missing the MS-Dos-6.22 drivers for this setup.

Controller = ID:7
HDD = ID:0
CD-Burner = ID:1
ZIP-Drive = ID2 + Terminator

Controller is running IRQ-11, DMA-6(7) and I/O-340.

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Reply 1 of 6, by akula65

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Adaptec retail cards should include drivers on floppy disks. If you have lost yours, the PMC-Sierra site still has good support for Adaptec products:

AHA-1542C Page:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scs … _isa/aha-1542c/

Accessing your SCSI CDROM under DOS
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scs … raccess_doc.htm

Reply 2 of 6, by brostenen

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akula65 wrote:
Adaptec retail cards should include drivers on floppy disks. If you have lost yours, the PMC-Sierra site still has good support […]
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Adaptec retail cards should include drivers on floppy disks. If you have lost yours, the PMC-Sierra site still has good support for Adaptec products:

AHA-1542C Page:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scs … _isa/aha-1542c/

Accessing your SCSI CDROM under DOS
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scs … raccess_doc.htm

Thanks. Will have a good look at it, as this is new territory to me.
Used to deal with PATA and SATA only.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Dominus

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Yeah, you need to install the card driver, the cards cdrom driver (both in config.sys) and mscdex driver in autoexec.bat

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Reply 4 of 6, by brostenen

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Tried loading the aspi driver in config.sys and it freezes. Any thought's?

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Reply 6 of 6, by brostenen

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Yes... All loaded now. I sorted the issue out.

The reason was, that the ISA mem block base or something called that, was not enabled in the BIOS.
I used the EZ SCSI installation kit, wich has all the drivers needed for my setup. 😀

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