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multiple CD drive emulation in DosBOx for PD

yeah. Is it doable? When I try to mount 6 or 5 cds dosbox yells at me for mounting too many cds. However, I currently have this in my autoexec file, and the configuration options in the game itself to look at the relevant drive for each of the ones I have emulated, and the real cd drive for the others. I have the CDs currently copied to those named folders. I got this idea from the UAKM dosbox stuff, and want to know if it's possible. Cause less cd swapping is good. and J is my real CD drive. and C is a hard drive with the stuff.

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount J: J:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount K: C:\pandora\cd3 -t cdrom -usecd 0
mount L: C:\pandora\cd4 -t cdrom -usecd 0
mount M: C:\pandora\cd5 -t cdrom -usecd 0
mount C: C:\
C:
Are you using the latest version of DOSBox- (DOSBox0.63) ? The reason I asked is, I'm using DOSBox0.63 with all 6 of my virtual drives. I realize that five of your drives are emulated, but that shouldn't be a problem as long as they're configured correctly. And apparently they are, otherwise the three emulated drives you currently have mounted wouldn't work. If you need to download DOSBox0.63, I have it on my website in the downloads section: Nilo's Place http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/

Nilo
Nilo

Website - http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/

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Yeah, I'm using .63. The other drives appear to work, and are selectable in the options menu, but when I need to load them, they say to insert the correct cd. If you have it working could you send the .conf file? or post the contents of the autoexec part? Thanks
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount f f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount g g:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount h h:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount i i:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount j j:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount k k:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount C C:\
C:
Nilo

Website - http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/

Email - [email protected]
For that are you just mounting ISOs in Daemon tools or something? This thing doesn't seem to like using folders as CDs.
I don't have the time right now (have to go earn a living) but if you would send me an e-mail or post your e-mail address here, I'll get back to you in a few hours - with a solution!


Nilo
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Nilo

Website - http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/

Email - [email protected]
Last edited by Anonymous on March 15, 2006 • 3:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Edited by me
Nilo

Website - http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/

Email - [email protected]
I had this problem with PD and dosbox. For some reason, it doesn't like multiple CDs being mounted. The game will work if you actually copy over all 6 CDs to folders and point dosbox towards them (they need to be labelled Pandora 1-6).

Hope that helps.
Hmm... whenever I try to mount more than 4 cds, it gives me an error on the fifth CD saying
MSCDEX: Failure: Too many CDROM drives (max:5) MSCDEX Installation failed.
Drive J mounted as CDROM

and the next one complains that the letters aren't contiguious since the previous one doesn't work

anyone know of a way to get arount that?

Oh, and if it matters, the first 4 cds are on virtual drives, and the last two are on real ones.
Try mounting your two on board drives first and see if that makes a difference. Or why not just run all six drives as VCD's and see if that resolves the issue. The "MSCDEX: Failure:" could be do to the program you are using for the VCD's; it may not be MSCDEX oriented. I'm using Virtual Drive, the same as Nilo, and Dosbox has no complaints with it.

Greg
GREG
I've tried that, and still the same MSCDEX error. Maybe I'll try posting on the Dosbox forums.
atomic vegetable, I tried that earlier to no avail, and the same error. Just for grins, could you post your autoexec for that?