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Recommend a drive for DOS?

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aaron311

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I have a computer system at my work which runs an inkjet system. It runs MS-Dos 6.2 and recently the CD-ROM drive died. Now I have to try to find a drive that will be compatible with Dos. I have a feeling any drive will work, but can anyone confirm this? Thanks.
 
I ended up going with an NEC 7170A. According to their documents, it is MS-dos compatible.
 
Yes, any drive should work if it's IDE. Use Bart Lagerweij's eltorito.sys as the cdrom driver if necessary.

Did you consider using a print server device? Something like this might replace the whole dos box, depending on what all it's doing.
 
This inkjet system connects through a series of LPT and serial connections to a proprietary (and ancient) PC, with an equally ancient piece of software controlling it, so a print server wouldn't help in this case. Thanks for the suggestion.

The drive is working perfectly with DOS, I'm happy to report.
 
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