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lean/mean DOs cd-rom driver needed

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First post, by Amigaz

Posted on 2008-02-10, 21:44

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Have ran into some cd-rom games that needs lots of conventional memory to run with full speech etc so I'm looking for a tiny cd-rom driver that takes less memory than oakcdrom.sys I'm using now which steals alot and refuses to load into upper memory

My hope was that xcdrom.sys from freedos would do the trick, it loads fine but I can't read any cd's with it...after reading the doc's it tells me it's made for 1997 and never motherboards etc and I'm running hardware from around 1994

Can anyone please help me with this issue and point to a nice driver to use?

Reply 1 of 10, by Amigaz

Posted on 2008-02-10, 22:14

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Problem solved

Found what I was looking for here

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html

Reply 2 of 10, by keropi

Posted on 2008-02-12, 07:33

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mui gracias Amigaz! there is also a 2nd driver there that needs 6kb 😀

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Reply 3 of 10, by gerwin

Posted on 2008-02-12, 11:17

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I switched to QCDROM.SYS, it has quite a lot of features, developed in 2006, used to be part of freedos. You can find it here:
http://www.hiren.info/downloads/dos-files
"QCDROM takes 2528 bytes of memory with its local-stack or 2016 bytes without a stack."

Reply 4 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2008-02-12, 11:23

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Should have pretty much the same flaws as xcdrom (same codebase).

Reply 5 of 10, by Amigaz

Posted on 2008-02-12, 11:36

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gerwin wrote:
I switched to QCDROM.SYS, it has quite a lot of features, developed in 2006, used to be part of freedos. You can find it here:
http://www.hiren.info/downloads/dos-files
"QCDROM takes 2528 bytes of memory with its local-stack or 2016 bytes without a stack."

Does it work with old IDE controllers like xdrom doesn't seem to do?

Reply 6 of 10, by gerwin

Posted on 2008-02-12, 14:37

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Amigaz: Does it work with old IDE controllers like xdrom doesn't seem to do?

Sorry, I have no cd-rom drives from around 1995 installed or on the shelf.
You have to try it yourself. QCDROM does have certain command line switches that might make a difference.

Reply 7 of 10, by Amigaz

Posted on 2008-02-12, 15:28

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gerwin wrote:
Amigaz: Does it work with old IDE controllers like xdrom doesn't seem to do?

Sorry, I have no cd-rom drives from around 1995 installed or on the shelf.
You have to try it yourself. QCDROM does have certain command line switches that might make a difference.

Thanks, I'm going to give it a spin 😀

I can imagine what memory problems the poor cd-rom owners had back in the 90's 🤐

Reply 8 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2008-02-12, 15:35

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Again SAME codebase. But well, why do i care posting.

Reply 9 of 10, by Amigaz

Posted on 2008-02-12, 15:39

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wd wrote:
Again SAME codebase. But well, why do i care posting.

🤣 😵

Same codebase = same freakin' software with a different name 🤐

Reply 10 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2008-02-12, 17:34

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Well only qcdrom is continued, but has been abandoned after a while either.
Don't know about its current state, or if somebody else is developing xcdrom.
Either way qcdrom is the thing to try, but don't expect too much.

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