🚀 go-pugleaf

    My wife, bless her, gave me a CDROM drive for Christmas.  I had it
running under MSDOS within a few hours but had no such luck under OS/2
2.0.  Under MSDOS I took IBM's generic CDROM driver off the November
PDK and installed it according to directions.  Now when I boot OS/2,
the following appears shortly after the startup logos:

    IBM CD-ROM Device Driver / Version 1.50
    SCSI-DD not found
    SYS1201:  The device driver "C:\OS2\SYSTEM\CDROM_G.SYS" specified
        in the DEVICE command on line 71 of the CONFIG.SYS file was
        not installed.  Line 71 is ignored.

    This may occur because of non-standard setups for my CDROM
adapter's I/O address, interrupt number or DMA channel (which I had to
juggle because my system is already loaded with other adapters).  But
this is only a guess because IBM seems to have adopted a policy of
supplying high-level documentation only.  Does anyone know what setup
configuration the generic driver requires, or if its requirement is
variable by invocation argument?
    My drive also doesn't work in a DOS window under OS/2.  An
executable named "mscdex.exe", apparently written by Microsoft, came
with the drive adapter.  Its function under MSDOS is to assign the
CDROM adapter to drive letter E:, which is the next available drive on
my system, and make it accessible there by other DOS programs.  When
executed in a DOS window under OS/2, it produces the complaint,
        Incorrect DOS version
    This also happened at first under MSDOS, but MSDOS provides a
separate program, "setver", which eliminates that complaint if invoked
as a driver in config.sys.  Unfortunately, MDOS under OS/2 does not
contain the setver program, and the DOS 5.0 version will not run under
OS/2 DOS.
    Yes, I know I should have installed one of the CDROMs and adapters
that IBM recommends, but my wife didn't know about 'em.  If anyone can
offer advice for the above problems, I'd much appreciate it.

Regards, rLs