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Article #1576Re: Dual-boot CD driver?
From: Paul Womar
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00
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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Demon have started to make the Dispatches CD dual-boot, which is a > nuisance. > When it was straight DOS/Unix, this worked perfectly. Now, I find that the > Apple CD-ROM driver won't let me read the DOS partition of dual-boot > drives, even if I am using SoftWindows. The latter part is very odd, I though they accessed the CD drive directly, I suppose if you disable the Aplle drivers youc ould find out! > The SoftWin manual tells me that there is a driver called RapidCD, from > Insignia, that will allow me to read both. Are there any others? Shareware > or free, even? Could I install such a driver without messing up my "normal" > CD operation? FWB CD Rom toolkit will certainly do it.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,85f88133f80c6ca X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) Subject: Re: Dual-boot CD driver? Date: 1998/02/22 Message-ID: <1d4uwgc.1o7axgj1dwlkhmN@pwomar.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 327519924 References: <B115A755966848F31@cara.demon.co.uk> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pwomar.demon.co.uk [158.152.90.30] Mail-Copies-To: never Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac