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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] broken windows needs replacing
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:51:34 +1000

Hi Sindi,

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 02:39:54 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:


> >> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Ron Clarke wrote:
> >>> I have a DOS package that is supposed to do all that, but I have not
> >>> yet got it to work.
> >>> It requires a specific driver (which is included) to be loaded before
> >>> it can write to my IDE CD burner, and it got to be too complicated. So
> >>> I have only been burning CDs with Linux.
> >>
> >> Is this aspi.sys? (scsi driver that goes into config.sys - this is what
> >> DOS cdrecord seems to use).
> >
> > Yes.
>
>
> Can you just put into config.sys the line
> device=aspi.sys (with path to aspi.sys if not in main directory)?

Yes, with some parameters.

> DOS cdroast and/or cdrecord had some way to install the driver on the fly
> and then remove it afterwards.

So does this package.

> If you don't have those (one of them is a
> very slow download) I can look it up. I managed to unautomate the process
> so as to choose the second cd-rom drive. I would like to know how to
> install/uninstall DOS drivers without config.sys anyway (so we can omit
> the two USB drivers from config.sys, which slows down booting because they
> keep looking for a USB device).

This package has something that will do that.

>
> > > What is your package?
> >
> > From Golden Hawk Technology: cdburner.zip 1.7 MB
>
> I ran across mention of this - it may be based on one of the other two
> programs (cdroast?). I will check it out some time for copying music CDs.
> Thanks.

It contains cdroast and a heap of other stuff.
I have stopped playing with it because it is so much easier to do stuff in
Linux. :)

Regards,
Ron

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Ron Clarke
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