How do you make CD-ROMs work in pure MSDOS?

[Hamtaro126]

I had bought MSDOS 6.22 and a older laptop from ebay as a companion to my 64 laptop today. But I had to put a game cd I made in it.

It has a CD drive, but the drive isn't detected!

Can anyone help solve it, as I cannot do emulation on my 64bit because of inaccuracy!

Note that it isn't spam, I wanted to play a few games to relive memories, as there is more than life than the NES, Romhacks, and Development!

[tepples]

The Google keyword for researching how CD-ROM drive support worked in MS-DOS 6.x is

MSCDEX

[Dwedit]

MSCDEX is only half the battle, you also need a CD ROM driver in your config.sys. Fortunately, the ATAPI standard made things much easier so you only need a common ATAPI driver instead of some driver that works with a particular sound card.

[Super-Hampster]

a good source for the generic ATAPI driver is a Windows 98 boot floppy.

also look here:

http://www.techadvice.com/tech/m/mscdex.htm

[cartlemmy]

This sounds like something I'd have a nightmare about.

[Hamtaro126]

Sorry, But they all require either windows or a floppy via another DOS system, All of which won't do, I can barely even work a CDROM now unless someone has a copy of it via 1.44MB floppy format

Either that, or I'd buy a windows 3.1 disk, But I do not think there is such thing as Win3.1 in Floppies!

[tokumaru]

This page has a lot of boot disks available, maybe one of them will work for you. If you don't have a way to record floppy disks, this will be hard.

[cartlemmy]

Sorry, But they all require either windows or a floppy via another DOS system, All of which won't do, I can barely even work a CDROM now unless someone has a copy of it via 1.44MB floppy format

Either that, or I'd buy a windows 3.1 disk, But I do not think there is such thing as Win3.1 in Floppies!

Actually my version of windows 3.1 was on floppies. That particular computer didn't even have a CD-ROM. Oh the memories!

[Dwedit]

Windows 95 was also available on floppies.