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