The only thing I see wrong is that you're specifying the same number for the -usecd parameter of all the mount commands. Each drive has a different number (can't remember how to find it, but it's in the DOSBox readme).

Ok, I've tried that, and nada, same old problem.

Can you just mount the first CD on f and then tell your virtual drive software to swap CDs? (you can hit something like Ctrl+F5 to refresh the disk cache in DOSBox after swapping disks - check the DOSBox readme for the actual key combo)

What happens if you drop the -usecd parameter?

@collector, nothing new. Same error.

I think that you need to issue a mount -cd command to see a list of all valid usecd parameters.

I think the error is quite self-explaining: DOSBox doesn't support that many CD-Rom drives. I don't know if that could be changed in the source code. BTW, you don't need virtual drive software: DOSBox can mount ISOs directly (via the imgmount command).

Moe, he's trying to mount 5 CD drives and DOSBox is telling him that 5 is the max supported but that 5 is too many. If only 4 are supported then the error message should be changed to reflect this.

well considering the amount of IDE slots the max would be four 😉
you might want to try mounting them as regular drives though. Not certain if a game would check if it;s cd when reaching the 5th cdrom

Qbix wrote:

well considering the amount of IDE slots the max would be four 😉
you might want to try mounting them as regular drives though. Not certain if a game would check if it;s cd when reaching the 5th cdrom

Actually, four drives is not the maximum, seeing as you can easily buy an IDE card and add more drives that way. I suppose these days it would really be SATA, but the point still stands. I don't know about 1996, as I never bought any hardware between 1994 and 1999, but I'm sure that IDE cards would have been available back then, and some crazy person could well have had enough CDROM drives for The Pandora Directive to have one drive per disc.

I've tried copying the files off the CDs to the hard drive and mounting directories as regular drives. It doesn't fool the program. Under A Killing Moon isn't fooled either.

Yeah, I think there were 4 or 8 "standard" ports for IDE drives in ISA computers, giving theoretically 8 (or even 16) CD drives. I wonder if the MSCDEX API has a limit...

Anonymous wrote:

Whenever I for the fifth CD it tries to mount. any more than that it complains about not having the drives in contigious order.

so why don't you make them in continuous order? (c,d,e,f,g,h)

It may be as easy as changing MSCDEX_MAX_DRIVES in src/dos/dos_mscdex.cpp. I can't check for myself at the moment because my drive died so I'm temporarily out of commision(typing this from someone elses computer).

Side note: My current computer has two on-board IDE controllers (for a total of 4 IDE channels with a maximum of 8 drives supported) and two on-board SATA connectors (which could support two drives, although I'm using them for a striped array)

ih8registrations wrote:

It may be as easy as changing MSCDEX_MAX_DRIVES in src/dos/dos_mscdex.cpp. I can't check for myself at the moment because my drive died so I'm temporarily out of commision(typing this from someone elses computer).

I've just tried it, and it is indeed that simple. I just changed MSCDEX_MAX_DRIVES to 10, recompiled, and voila! I can mount all six discs of Pandora Directive simultaneously.

Cheers, and here's to quick fixes!

Peter

Thanks for reporting back.

This now begs the question: Why the limitation?

How do you recompile?

I figured as much; you're welcome;)

increased them to 8 in the cvs.