Dos driver for sata optical drive

the Microsoft Generic (www.doorway.ru)DOS cdrom drivers for optical drives, do not work with the New SATA CDROM/DVD rewiters (optical)drives. there is a new driver called www.doorway.ru which works with both drives (ie IDE optical and SATA optical drives) I have not tested it as my equipment is old.  · DOS Boot Driver for SATA DVD I am looking for a DOS device driver that supports the SATA DVD drives used in the E and other systems based on the Intel ICH8 chipset. I tried the www.doorway.ru v in the recommended configurations, but it does not recognize the DVD in any of multiple client www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. Recommended Answers. You can use any sata drive in any sata port, where the LCD (lowest common denominator) rules. IE, a sata-1 drive in a sata-3 port will run at sata-1 speeds. Obviously, for best performance (drive read/write hardware notwithstanding) you should match the drive with the port controller; however, since it .Occupation: Master Poster.

The floppy image isn't supposed to be bootable. Anyways, here's how to boot into DOS once you install the driver: Step 1. Eject the floppy before you restart or Step 1. Restart the VM, and keep hitting F12 (or ESC if you are on VMWare I think) Step 2. Select "Hard Disk" or "Hard Drive" Done!. Verify if the drive is detected in BIOS (Figure 1, 2 3). If yes, proceed to the next step. For more information, refer to the Dell knowledgebase article Instructions to Download and View Manuals. Figure 1: Optical Drive in BIOS Figure 2: Optical Drive in BIOS Figure 3: Optical Drive in BIOS. TITLE: SATA Compatible AHCI Driver VERSION: Rev. A DESCRIPTION: This package contains a utility to provide the SATA compatible AHCI driver and supporting files that are necessary for Drive Letter Access (DLA) when booting from a SATA optical drive. It can be used with the supported workstation models and operating systems.

Generic CD-ROM drivers such as www.doorway.ru work for DVD drives and you can in fact read most DVDs from within DOS. I've only heard of DOS drivers for accessing AHCI DVD drives - otherwise someone would have to develop a DOS driver for each brand (and. You boot the system with a floppy disk (an antique forgotten piece) and then load the device driver, then partition and format the hard disk. Mind you DOS