GCDROM.SYS is a SATA native IDE CD/DVD-ROM driver for DOS. Any 9x enthusiast requires the SATA-CDROM driver to even install Windows 9x. All available SATA-CDROM drives will be accessible from the DOS command prompt preceding installation. Be sure to follow instructions for driver integrating.
Features:
**Support for SATA Native IDE controllers: Intel ICH6/ICH7/ICH8, Jmicron 363/368, NVidia CK804/MCP55/MCP51 etc.
**Windows 9x installations from an SATA CD drive.
**Use SATA-CDROMs on any Windows 9x PC
Requirements:
MS-DOS or Windows 95/98/ME
How to Integrate (Thank you LoneCrusader!):
With a floppy disk:
1) Copy driver to a floppy risk
2) Add one line to the CONFIG.SYS file (.txt file) on floppy
ISO File:
1) Download WinImage
2) Use WinImage to open Windows 98SE ISO; select the following:
Image > Boot Sector Properties > Export, and save the embedded floppy image
as a new .IMA file.
4) Use WinImage to open .IMA file. Extract CONFIG.SYS to a folder where you
can modify it.
5) Open CONFIG.SYS with Notepad; find the line that contains OAKCDROM.SYS (this is the default IDE/PATA CDROM driver).
6) Copy this line and duplicate it below the original line. Change OAKCDROM.SYS in the new line to GCDROM.SYS. (GCDROM.SYS has some other arguments/switches that can be added when loaded, but this default configuration works in most cases.)
7) Save your modified CONFIG.SYS. Be sure the extension is not changed to .TXT. Use WinImage to inject your modified CONFIG.SYS and a copy of GCDROM.SYS into the previously extracted .IMA file.
8) Use WinImage to inject this modified boot sector into a new .ISO file (which can subsequently be edited with any normal ISO program; but be aware that some files on the boot image expect the standard 98SE CDROM file/folder layout in order to work) or back into the original. Save and burn to a new CD, then you're ready to go.
**These instructions are also to be used to include rloew's AHCI-CD Driver!
Notes:
Command lines for the file can be found here.
Components:
ODD_DOS_driver.zip (99 kb)
