CD-Rom Driver

[invitro]

How do i know which .sys file is my CD rom driveR? And is there any way to find it with VB? Maybe there is a universal CD rom driver i can use in my application?
Please help,
thank you!

[Gen-X]

If you are using Windows95, 98 or 2000 you don't need to worry about a CD-Rom Driver as it doesn't use any!!!

Gone are the days when you had to load MSCDE.EXE as well as a CDROM.SYS in order to use your CD drive... Now with Windows95 and above it is controlled by your operating system so you never have to worry.

[Zaf Khan]

The driver will usually have the word CDROM or ATAPI in its name and the most common ones seem to come form OAK Technonlogy.

Although many of the Eastern (Japan, Taiwan etc) countries favour their own drivers, but the OAK drivers usually supports all.

I guess the only time you need it is when you make a boot floppy, but like GEN-X sez.... those daze are gone...

DocZaf
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[JasonGS]

If you absolutley must know the file, look in your CONFIG.SYS for a line that contains something like /D:MSCD001, ex:

c:\atapicd.sys /d:MSCD001

the file to the far left of that "switch" is your CD-ROM driver file.

[invitro]

Thanks for the replies. I forgot about the config.sys file.
I needed to know because im making a program that makes boot floppies for a user in dos so nobody has to go trough making ur config files and all that.

Thanks again!