They have :) And in more than one way. However if you are thinking of
something that operates such that it treats the whole drive like a CD-ROM
drive, I havent seen that.

There are products that range from simple things that fool mscdex.exe (like
fakecd) to more sophisticated things like 'Virtual CD' from Logicraft.
(Which has worked for every CD I've ever tried, inluding copy protection
checks.) There are ways to mount ISO CD-ROM images in Windows (like
WinImage) and GNU/Linux (available for some time now).

Unfortunately, none of these are really applicable to the PIC platform as
they are written for use at a much higher level. I understand there's a
port of GNU/Linux underway for the StrongARM. Still not a PIC though :)

Paul

At 09:08 AM 5/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
>You'd think that someone would have written a driver that looked like a CDROM
>for a hard disk by now (complete with special copy utility for loading from
>a real CD.)  That'd solve the RO issue, as well as tricking those
>applications that really wanted to find a CD drive with THEIR disk enclosed.
>
>BillW

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