Anyone know the standard bios setup for cdroms? 1

[denodave]

Anyone know the standard bios setup for cdroms? I need to manually enter the drive's settings:

cylinders, heads, precomp, Landing zone, sections, size

I am sure it's standardized, it's an old machine and auto-sensing is failing me. Email me! denodave@yahoo.com
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[ski]

CD-ROM drives do not have cylinders, heads, etc., like a hard drive.
And most pre-pentium BIOS setups won't recognize a CD-ROM drive. The software needs to be installed in DOS.
If you still have a floppy disk that came with your CD-ROM drive, it will have the DOS installation program on it.

If not, just go to your manufacturer's website, follow the links(starting usually under SUPPORT), and you may find a download for DOS drivers for your CD-ROM drive.

Also, here is a site listing drivers for lots of makes:

http://ftp.cvut.cz/local/drivers/cdrom/

 

[TyrantSSV]

If your motherboard is too old, set the None for appropriate IDE channel. All recognition of CD-ROM drives is performed by operating system.
For example in DOS:
config.sys:

device=c:\drivers\sscdrom.sys /d:sscd0 (or your CD-ROM driver path and file)

autoexec.bat:

c:\drivers\mscdex.exe /d:sscd0

Windows have built-in support for CD-ROM but sometimes the driver and config.sys record (as above) is required.

 

[illusion]

ski is right denodave.
Setting up a cd-rom is not the same as a HDD, therefore configuring CHS in bios wont be necessary in this regard.

Your cd-rom is either configured as a master or slave, boot sequence is also a possible cd-rom bios configuration. Besides these, getting your cd-rom to work would mean installing the drivers required for the specific device.

Hope this helps!

 

[tommarsh]

if your computer is "REALLY OLD" you may need to make a dos entry that says ;
last drive = Z
that will assign an extra (s load of them)drive letter.
i had that trouble when taking out a 5½ drive and installing a cd-rom---no matter how many times i installed the drivers-the system wouldn't recognize it because of the assigned drive letter limits.
somebody help him out, please--is it the
edit config.sys file?
Tom

 

[Snickle]

I find that the only time I have to let some BIOSes 'see' the CD is for the Boot to CD feature. Don't have to do it on all, same with Zip drive.

 

[ceh4702]

There is nothing in the BIOS to set up other than boot order. CDROM uses a device driver on the hard drive. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.