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  • Disabling internal CD drive in favor of USB CD drive?

    From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Sun Mar 17 14:45:54 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    I have a Win98 computer and have a custom DOS configuration used for networking to a DOS laptop. Now, the Win98 computer's internal CD-ROM drive is broken. I'm using a USB CD-ROM drive instead. Now, I want to ignore the internal drive and use the USB drive instead. How do I do that? I have the necessary DOS-mode USB drivers.
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  • From JJ@jj4public@vfemail.net to comp.os.msdos.misc on Tue Mar 19 11:34:59 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:45:54 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:
    I have a Win98 computer and have a custom DOS configuration used for networking to a DOS laptop. Now, the Win98 computer's internal CD-ROM
    drive is broken. I'm using a USB CD-ROM drive instead. Now, I want to ignore the internal drive and use the USB drive instead. How do I do
    that? I have the necessary DOS-mode USB drivers.

    You can't disable a single IDE drive (CD-ROM or HDD) in Windows 9x. So,
    there is no solution. Only workarounds.

    1. For CD-ROMs, remove its drive letter via its device properties dialog in Device Manager.

    2. Disable IDE controller's primary/secondary channel from the Device
    Manager. Note: this will disable any attached master & slave devices for
    that channel.

    3. Disable IDE controller's primary/secondary channel from the BIOS. Note:
    this will disable any attached master & slave devices for that channel. Or
    if BIOS supports disabling a specific IDE channel's master or slave device,
    use that instead.

    4. Unplug both the power and data cable to the storage device.

    Note: workaround #1 and #2 should not be used if storage device detection is causing unacceptable delay or even freeze the system.
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  • From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Tue Mar 19 04:06:42 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    I need it done in DOS mode. If nothing else, I can change some drive assignments in the config.
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  • From JJ@jj4public@vfemail.net to comp.os.msdos.misc on Wed Mar 20 19:33:07 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:
    I need it done in DOS mode. If nothing else, I can change some drive assignments in the config.

    Don't load the IDE CD-ROM driver.
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  • From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Wed Mar 20 07:02:01 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 8:33:08 AM UTC-4, JJ wrote:
    Don't load the IDE CD-ROM driver.

    I believe my USB drivers will treat the drive as SCSI. What's the name of the SCSI CD driver?
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  • From Sjouke Burry@burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll to comp.os.msdos.misc on Wed Mar 20 23:51:59 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On 20-3-2019 13:33, JJ wrote:
    On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:06:42 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:
    I need it done in DOS mode. If nothing else, I can change some drive
    assignments in the config.

    Don't load the IDE CD-ROM driver.

    I just booted from a win98 floppy, to see the cd's.
    I get from that two cd drives.
    Just ignore the broken one.

    The drives are actually my dvd/cd writer and a dvdrom on an xp computer.

    No mods to the w98 floppy needed.
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  • From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Wed Mar 20 15:54:25 2019
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 6:52:00 PM UTC-4, Sjouke Burry wrote:
    I just booted from a win98 floppy, to see the cd's.
    I get from that two cd drives.
    Just ignore the broken one.

    Okay. :)
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