Creative GCD-R542B manual Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive, Changing the Driver Settings

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Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive

This chapter comprises several sections to help you get more out of your CD-ROM drive. The chapter is organized as follows:

❑Changing the Driver Settings

This section describes the parameters of the drivers that control your CD-ROM drive and the available settings of each driver.

❑Running CDSETUP

This section shows you how to run a utility to change your IDE port and IRQ line settings.

❑Locking the Disc Tray

You can lock your disc tray if you wish. This section describes two DOS utilities for locking and unlocking the disc tray.

❑Connecting Additional Drive

This section shows you how to connect an additional drive to your CD-ROM drive.

Changing the Driver Settings

This section shows you how to change the settings of the two drivers that control your CD-ROM drive.

The two drivers mentioned above are:

❑SBIDE.SYS

The hardware-dependent driver for your CD-ROM drive. It enables your CD-ROM drive to communicate effectively with your PC.

❑MSCDEX.EXE

The Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions program — the software-dependent driver for your drive. It is a standard

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