DOS drivers for SATA DVD drive...?

Hi,
As you know for any CD-Rom dreive (including DVD Drives)  you will need two parts.
1) Driver to the drive this is created by Drive Manufaturer. which will go into CONFIG.SYS
2) MSCDEX.EXE which will go to the AUTOEXEC.BAT
I don't know your DVD brand. You can only get the driver from your DRIVE Vendors Web-Page or from some genereic sites which will direct tyou to the vendors page like:
http://www.driverguide.com

You can browse this site, create a free mebersip and select you drive vendor and type from Driverguide site and download the dirver (given that the vendor provides dos driver)

If there's a driver present you can download it and read theaccompanying README file for correct parameters.
If altoughgh you put the correct parameters and DOS still does not recognize the DVD Driver you maay need to move config parameters to the beginning o end of the CONFIG.SS and AUTOEXEC.BAT

As a last note the disks you want to use must be in High Sierrrra format (that is following 8+3 filenamem and directory standard)
Since this is the only format MSCDEX supports.

You may also want to have a look at:
http://www.freedos.org
For a supported open-source DOS clone. Another important feature is  FreeDOS now support lots of hardware and have a very good extended memory support.

Cheers,
K

The manufacturer of the drives is Sony; I took a look on their support site but couldn't find any DOS-specific drivers, so I'll try the FreeDOS bootable CD and see what happens.  

Whose motherboard is it? And the model no?

Need those to find DOS drivers if any exist.

Intel DP965LT.

Hi,

What matters is not the motherboard. Will you please specify the DVD-ROM Model also ?
As I told earlier there are two components:
- Driver for your SONY Drive
- MSCDEX.EXE

Cheers,
K

An oversight on my part, the DVD drives in my system are PATA, not SATA, sorry.

I'll obtain the exact model numbers and post here.

I found a workaround, although unable to boot via a boot CD, I was able to load my boot CD's contents onto a USB flash drive with the help of this link:

  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd_on_usb_disk.html

Yeah but in fact since you still can't boot off from the CD so if you post the model spec we can find you a better alternativ I guess.

True but now I don't need to boot off the CD and don't care to pursue that solution further since I have a workable alternative.  :)  

If you'd really like to continue researching this I'll be glad to provide the model numbers and try out possible solutions posted, but otherwise I'll ask support to delete the question per their usual procedure.

Ok,

Sony DWQ-120A  (DVD-RW drive)
SONY 16X DVD-ROM  (DVD-ROM, I don't have the specific model number)