Writing Drivers For ide devices
 

Hi yall,
I was wondering if anyone here had any clue about writing device drivers. I have a BCD-G621D cd drive by BTC and the drivers stop at Windows ME. I found a pci driver writing progran calles windriver, but it only supports pci devices. I can't and am not willing to buy the windows DDK to build drivers just for one 56X cd drive. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Re: Writing Drivers For ide devices
 

How much is your time worth? How badly do you want to learn to write drivers?

If your time is worth more then a few pennies an hour, it would be much cheaper to buy a new CD-ROM drive. They run $20-$30 new and for not much more you can get a burner.

If you really want to learn to write drivers, there are probably much easier ways to learn. You should start with something you have specs on. You should also buy a good book, which would, of course, cost more then a new CD-ROM drive. You'd also want to buy the DDK.

Re: Writing Drivers For ide devices
 

ok, thats probably a better way to go, cus i have time, but i dowanna buy a $200 program just for one cd drive. then theres a book. i'd like to know how to write drivers, but i found a pci driver builder, and everything else is pci. unless i could get a copy of the ddk free. but i doubt anyone would be willing to give it to me. it was free, i just didn't know about it then. unless someone finds an ide device driver program, then i;'ll just let it go.

a 56X cd drive for sale. drivers upto mellenuim edition!!!

Re: Writing Drivers For ide devices
 

I am surprised that Win XP doesn't have the drivers built in for your CD-ROM drive. Maybe it just needs a firmware update. I remembering installing a generic DVD-ROM with no company drivers and it worked fine; some of the configurations had to be changed though.

But I agree with Joe on this one, go to www.newegg.com or any other local computer store to get a $15 to $30 CD-ROM drive.

And even if you successfully wrote drivers for the CD-ROM to work, it probably wouldn't work all that well. Not because of your programming skills, but because old peripherals, don't work that well with new equipment.

Re: Writing Drivers For ide devices
 

sounds good, i couldn't find a firmware update on it, so i guess if someone wants to run on ME, that'd work fine. got the thing free, so it doesn't matter much. :yikes: