DOS driver driver installation

After the optical drive hardware installation is complete, if the computer works under DOS system. Start the computer without using an optical drive. You also need to install the driver for this CD-ROM.

CD-ROM device drivers should be provided by the vendor at the time of purchase. Drivers for CD-ROMs that don't ask for brands are different. The driver's file name is followed by .EXE.

In general, ATAPI-CD.SYS is suitable for most optical drives. For example, the SONY CD-ROM drive uses the ATAPI-CD.SYS driver, while the PHILIPS CD-ROM drive uses the CM153.SYS program. If there is no special driver. Just use the ATAPI-CD.SYS program to drive.

First create a new directory and copy the CD-ROM driver to the white record.

For example: C:\\>MD DEV C:\\>CD DEV C:\\>DEV>COPY A:ATAPI-CD.SYS

The driver for the CD is the completion CD Read and write and some controlled drive execution functions. In addition, the optical drive also has a program management, which manages the optical drive to exchange data with the computer and complete the interface function with DOS. This software is an extended external life of the DOS system. The name of this program is sufficient for MSCDEX.EXE.