DOS ain't dead

Today I accidentaly found a driver which should write with both SATA and PATA types of CD/DVD-drives. Maybe it could be useful for someone:
http://lexapass.narod.ru/xgcdrom_bin.ZIP

There is a small info utility about SATA and PATA devices in your computer:
http://lexapass.narod.ru/XGCDScan.zip

And this is the main page deticated to makinga booting flash disks:
http://lexapass.narod.ru/#Projects

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DOS-u-akbar!

> Today I accidentaly found a driver which should write with both SATA and
> PATA types of CD/DVD-drives. Maybe it could be useful for someone:
> http://lexapass.narod.ru/xgcdrom_bin.ZIP

If it's based on the GNU GPL'ed GCDROM/XCDROM source the author has to make the source available as well. (Or probably it is already somewhere; I can't read the page. Just tried some links and read the English part of the read-me file.)

And yes, the name of the driver sounds hilarious.

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> Today I accidentaly found a driver which should write with both SATA and
> PATA types of CD/DVD-drives. Maybe it could be useful for someone:
> http://lexapass.narod.ru/xgcdrom_bin.ZIP
>
> There is a small info utility about SATA and PATA devices in your
> computer:
> http://lexapass.narod.ru/XGCDScan.zip
>
> And this is the main page deticated to makinga booting flash disks:
> http://lexapass.narod.ru/#Projects

What's the difference between this and UIDE or Mark Tsai's GCDROM? (I'm not being sarcastic, just wondering if it does something those don't.)

> What's the difference between this and UIDE or Mark Tsai's GCDROM? (I'm
> not being sarcastic, just wondering if it does something those don't.)

UIDE is not FLOSS.
GCDROM was developed for SATA drives.

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> > Today I accidentaly found a driver which should write with both SATA and
> > PATA types of CD/DVD-drives. Maybe it could be useful for someone:
> > http://lexapass.narod.ru/xgcdrom_bin.ZIP
>
> If it's based on the GNU GPL'ed GCDROM/XCDROM source

XGCDROM is definitely based on GCDROM/XCDROM/UIDE! Just look at the order of strings inside.

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I just did try the links in this announce and was redirected each
time to http://narod.yandex.ru/ which
1) Seems a hosting site
2) Has no mention of an english page
3) Seems to require an username/password in order to enter
FYI
JAS

EDIT by rr: fixed URL

> I just did try the links in this announce and was redirected each
> time to http://narod.yandex.ru/ which

Must be a problem of your browser. The page opens fine here. If you need the files, I could send you by e-mail.

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> > I just did try the links in this announce and was redirected each
> > time to http://narod.yandex.ru/ which
>
> Must be a problem of your browser. The page opens fine here. If you need
> the files, I could send you by e-mail.

Apparently, this is less tested than UIDE, just FYI:

xgcdrom 2.4 w/ srcs

   Date      Time    Attr         Size   Compressed  Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2007-10-16 00:34:16 ....A        75516        21741  XGCDROM2.ASM
2007-09-30 00:21:48 ....A          106               XGCDROM2.BAT
2007-08-01 12:05:00 ....A         1222               readme.txt
2007-10-16 00:34:24 ....A         4055         3335  XGCDROM.SYS
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
                                 80899        25076  4 files, 0 folders

Last week I found that these files disappeared from Lexapass site.
So I mailed him and he was so kind and sent me these files on mail.
I uploaded them on my site:
XGCDROM
XGCDscan

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> Last week I found that these files disappeared from Lexapass site.
> So I mailed him and he was so kind and sent me these files on mail.
> I uploaded them on my site:
> XGCDROM
> XGCDscan

Okay, but make sure to try UIDE first! And tell us what does or doesn't work that makes you want to use such thing (which Jack admits is old, buggy, and unsupported).

I know UIDE very good, of course.
However it does not work on my HP Pavolon dv6 notebook with SATA/AHCI only mode so I try various alternatives.

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