Tom - thanks for suggestion (re try AHCICD.sys)
. I downloaded AHCICD.sys and on booting up FreeDOS RC5 from a USB stick in bare metal mode, the relevant parts of the process are:- UHDD.sys UHDD, 10-30-2021 5-MB cache Bios-handled disks : 3 1 char device installed Driver loaded set _CDROM.DRVR = AHCICD Attempt to use the AHCICD CD driver success (in green) Attempting to load SHSUCDX CD extentions success (in green) Successfully started the CD driver and extentions for drive F: (F: in green) (FDCDX001) ... Done Processing start up files FDconfig.sys and FDauto.bat When I tried dir F:\ (F:\ is the DVD drive built into my laptop) with an audio CD in the tray - I get the following error message:- Volume in drive F Error reading from dive F: data area: drive not ready (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? At this stage all I wanted to do was to get only a directory list of what is on the music CD in the DVD tray. Any pointers (anyone) of what else I need to do? This is the first time ever for me to, in DOS, ever tried to access a DVD drive - so it was helpful that the DVD was "installed". Richard ________________________________ From: tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2022 10:46 PM To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0 > At present the built in DVD drive (on the HP laptop) is not > working with FreeDOS (will try to spend more time to solve this > problem) - have yet to try an external USB DVD blue-ray (but this > will be a while before I try). I have no CD only drives at all. there is a good chance that your BIOS uses AHCI mode for the DVD, and your DVD driver supports only SATA/legacy mode. try to use AHCICD.SYS Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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