About GCDROM

The GCDROM is SATA Native IDE CD/DVD-ROM driver ( **not support legacy mode PATA ) for DOS.

  • It support all SATA Native IDE controller, such as Intel ICH6/ICH7/ICH8, Jmicron 363/368, NVidia CK804/MCP55/MCP51 etc....
  • The source code derive from XCDROM project.

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CONFIG.SYS

  • determine number to detect 1st/2nd/3th SATA native ide controller

DEVICE=IDE\GCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000 /C0   

DEVICE=IDE\GCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /C1

DEVICE=IDE\GCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD002 /C2

 

至於要下幾次可能要看總共有幾組控制器..以 Intel ICH8 mainboard 為例, 會有2個sata controller, 如果再加上onboard Jmicron 363,共有3個sata controller,/c0 /c1 /c2 是用來告訴driver,要掃瞄第幾個controller上的SATA IDE光碟機,就看你的SATA光碟機,接在那個controller囉!

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AUTOEXEC.BAT

  • Link drive letter to cdrom drive

MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /D:MSCD001 /D:MSCD002

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Test Result

 

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XCDROM.SYS

Ver 2.2

GCDROM.SYS
Ver 2.3

Jmicron 363/368 PATA Native IDE

Fail

OK

Jmicron 363 SATA Native IDE

Fail

OK

ICH8/ICH7/ICH6 SATA Native IDE

Fail

OK

NVidia CK804/MCP55/51 SATA Native IDE

Fail

OK

ICH7/ICH6 Legacy mode PATA IDE

OK

Not support legacy mode PATA