DOS CD-ROM DRIVERS
                            --------------------
                            
	With in this DOS, cdrom system archive, you'll find various cdrom 
drives and utilities for IDE, SCSI and USB cdroms, Please read all the 
enclosed documents that come with these drives.
	
	DOS, like most operating systems use configurations files to set up
in genneral how the PC will run. DOS, uses two bsaic files at boot to do this.
	According to which drive your computer boots from either A:(floppy) 
or C:(harddrive), these files are:
		c:\config.sys or a:\config.sys 
and
		c:\autoexec.bat or a:\autoexec.bat
		
CONFIG.SYS
-----------

	Config.sys, as it say configures your PC. This text file is called
first at boot and generally handles memory management and device drivers, 
this is the first part of your cdrom drive setup.
	Within this file generally toward the bottom there should be a device
line with a similiar comannad syntax to this:

	DEVICE=[DRIVE]:\[PATH]\[DEVICEDRIVER.SYS] /D:[DRIVERNAME] /[OTHEROPTIONS]
	
	EX: device=c:\dos\oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001
	
If, not, make sure there's a cdrom driver in the appropiate directory DOS,
and edit your config.sys, to contian the driver and it's switches.

AUTOEXEC.BAT
------------

	Autoexec.bat, is the second file called at boot after config.sys.
This is were your extra configurations take place. This is the second part
of the cdrom device loading, allowing DOS, to read various cdrom formats.
Near the the bottom of this file there should be a line with this command 
syntax:
	
	[DRIVE]:\[PATH]\[COMMAND] /D:[DRIVERNAME] /L:[DRIVE LETTER]
	
The driver name is that which is assigned by /d:drivername in the config.sys
file and the /l: switch tells the driver command to use the first avaliable 
drive after such things as floppy(A:) first harddrive(C:) or maybe partitions
or other harddrives(D:, E:, etc..).

	c:\dos\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /l:E (this places the cdrom on drive E:)

Problems:
---------

	With older PC, the computer CMOS, doesn't always pickup cdroms and
extra switches are need for the device=driver syntax in the config.sys file.
Telling the driver which IDE/SCSI port(baseIO) your cdrom is on. 
Not to worry in common, most cdroms are IDE and are either on the Primary IDE
port or Secondary the IDE port.

	The primary(first port) IDE baseIO is 1F0 with an interupt 14
	The second IDE port baseIO is 170 with an interupt of 15
	
Example for primary IDE port:
	device=c:\dos\atapicdd.sys /d:cdrom001 /c:0,1F7
or
	device=c:\dos\vide-cdd.sys /d:cdrom001 /p:1F7,14
	
To, experiment before you commit to editing your config.sys and autoexec.bat.
You can use a device loader from the DOS command prompt, Most DOS have these.
In PC-DOS(IBM) it's dynaload, you can use it to load your cdrom.sys drive,
which otherwise has to be load at the start of boot thru config.sys, then your
cdrom command(mscdex) as would be called from the autoexec.bat.

	EX: dynaload c:\dos\oakcdrom.sys /d:\mscd001
then
	EX: mscdex /d:mscd001 /l:e

Included in the zip file is ctload, similiar to dynaload.

That's all folks!