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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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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