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UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work (Users)

posted by Doug , 02.10.2009, 02:59

Usually, you don't need to specify the /D: switch twice on the command line -- you only need to specify one device name (for example, /D:MYCDDVDS), even if you have two physical drives, as each CD and DVD drive is treated as a separate unit within the UIDE driver -- they don't need to be separately named. UIDE will use /D:UDVD1 as the default device name, so the /D: option is not even needed in the UIDE command line... as long as /D:UDVD1 is used in the SHSUCDX command line. The /D: device name is only used to allow SHSUCDX to communicate with UIDE -- so just make sure the /D: device name matches exactly on each command line.

Other comments:

/N1 turns off hard-drive handling by UIDE. Do you want to do this? (And just use UIDE for the CD and DVD drives?)

/UX turns off Ultra-DMA. The switch is usually not needed, as UIDE can itself determine if drive supports UDMA -- and if the drive can't, then UIDE will automatically use PIO mode. This switch is mainly for a few odd drives.

If you're using UIDE.SYS, why are you using HIMEM.SYS instead of XMGR.SYS? XMGR.SYS and UIDE.SYS were built to work together!

- Doug B.

Complete thread:

• UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - Vehudis, 01.10.2009, 21:13 (Users)
  • UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - rr, 01.10.2009, 23:26
    • UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - ecm, 02.10.2009, 13:54
  • UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - sol, 01.10.2009, 23:32
  • UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - Doug, 02.10.2009, 02:59
    • UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - ecm, 02.10.2009, 13:47
  • UIDE and SHSUCDX don't work - rr, 03.10.2009, 18:54
  • UIDE and SHSUCDX work - Vehudis, 05.10.2009, 21:39
    • UIDE and SHSUCDX work - rr, 08.10.2009, 17:02