COREL CD POWERPAK VERSION 1.0 README FILE ========================================= This document provides information you should know * before installing Corel CD PowerPak version 2.0 * about CorelSCSI utilities * about some manufacturers'devices This document also includes the Corel Technical Support numbers. Installing ASPI Managers ------------------------ The CorelSCSI installation includes the following ASPI managers: Card Type ASPI Version File Name ------------------------------------------------------------- Corel Generic ASPI for the BusLogic & Adaptec (154X, 164X) 1.03 ASPIDRV.SYS Corel Generic ASPI for the IBM Host Adapters 1.00 ASPIIBM.SYS Corel Generic ASPI for the Pro Audio Studio 16 card 1.00 ASPIMED.SYS Corel LS2000 1.00 ASPILS_D.SYS Acculogic ASPI Interface 3.01.01 ASPFCAM.SYS Acculogic CAM driver 3.00.05 DOSCAM.SYS Always AL-500 1.00 ASPILS_D.SYS Always AL-1000 1.00 ASPISHT.SYS Always IN-2000 461-12 ASPIDRVR.SYS American Megatrends Fast Disk 1.1 ASPIKERN.SYS DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS ROM\SMARTROM V.001.K 001.K DPTDDL.SYS DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS ROM\SMARTROM V.002.B 002.B DPTDDL.SYS DTC 3X80/3X50 ASPI Manager 1.5A ASPI3X80.SYS New Media PCMCIA ASPI Manager 2.03 ASPIMGR.SYS FDC ASPI Interface 1.00 ASPIFCAM.SYS FDC TMC-950 CAM driver 1.02 DCAM950.EXE FDC TMC-18XX CAM driver 1.03 DCAM1800.EXE QLogic ASPI Manager 2.17 QLASPI.SYS QLogic SCSI RAM BIOS 2.17 QL406DOS.SYS UltraStor Ultra 14/34 2.00 USPI14.SYS UltraStor Ultra 14N 2.00 USPI14N.SYS UltraStor Ultra 24FA 1.04 USPI24.SYS If you have problems with the ASPI manager, contact the manufacturer of your card. If the ASPI manager for your card isn't included with the installation, you must install your card's ASPI manager and load it in your CONFIG.SYS file before installing CorelSCSI. To load an ASPI manager in your CONFIG.SYS file 1. Copy the ASPI manager from the diskette provided with your SCSI card to your hard drive. 2. Add the device driver line to the CONFIG.SYS file using the following syntax: DEVICE=C:\xxxx.SYS where xxxx indicates the name of your ASPI manager. 3. Reboot the system before you start the CorelSCSI installation. While the system is rebooting, you should look for status messages from the ASPI manager. If the status indicates unsuccessful installation, the CorelSCSI device driver won't function. About Future Domain Host Adapters --------------------------------- If you're using an 8-bit host adapter with the BIOS version 8.2 or a 16-bit host adapter with the BIOS version 3.2, DCAMxxx.EXE is optional. However, if you're also using the QEMM memory manager, you must use both DCAMxxx.EXE and ASPIFCAM.SYS. TMC-950 HOST ADAPTER: DCAM950 can support multiple adapters. The TMC-950 adapter requires that you specify the memory location of the adapter and the IRQ setting of the adapter using the following command line syntax: DEVICE=DCAM950.EXE /MEM IRQ [/MEM IRQ [/MEM IRQ]] The default setting for a single adapter looks like this: DEVICE=DCAM950.EXE /CA00 5 Valid memory locations for the TMC-950 are CA00, C800, CE00 and DE00. Valid IRQ's are 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15. TMC-18XX HOST ADAPTER: The TMC-18XX host adapter doesn't require any command line settings: DEVICE=DCAM1800.EXE About DPT ASPI Managers ----------------------- The DPT ASPI managers provided have been renamed because of duplicate names. However the installation will rename the selected ASPI manager to DPTDDL.SYS. - DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS ROM\SMARTROM V.001.K DPTDDL1K.SYS - DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS ROM\SMARTROM V.002.B DPTDDL2B.SYS Using Memory Managers --------------------- If you're using a memory manager, you may need to uninstall it before installing CorelSCSI, and then reinstall the memory manager. In rare cases, systems may hang if CorelSCSI is installed while a memory manager is loaded. ABOUT COREL CD POWERPAK UTILITIES ================================= CD-AUDIO and CDDA: Digital Audio Sampling ----------------------------------------- The following drive models support digital audio sampling, which is used with CDDA (for DOS users) and CD-Audio (for Windows users): * Toshiba XM3401 * Sony CDV561 (and OEM versions such as Compaq CDV561) * Apple CD300 Corel Professional Photos ------------------------- The CD-ROM provided with this package includes the MOSAIC utility shipped with CorelDRAW! version 4.0 Rev. B. Therefore, you only need to reinstall this utility if you're using CorelDRAW! version 4.0 Rev. A. This release of MOSAIC loads PhotoCD thumbnails and provides faster print speeds than previous versions. WARNING: Installing MOSAIC from CORELDRAW! 4.0 REV A after installing the Photo CD MOSAIC will cause erratic system behavior. If you're using CorelDRAW! 3.0, you can install the Photo CD version of MOSAIC, which can co-exist with your existing MOSAIC utility. CorelCDX --------- DRIVER NAMES: If CorelCDX can't find driver names in the CRLSCSI.INI file, try to locate and initialize drivers named 'MSCD001' and 'MSCD099'. These are the default names which the CUNI driver will use. If the CRLSCSI.INI file is missing, CorelCDX should be able to use the default names used by Corel CUNI device driver(s). This default action should NOT be done if ANY device driver names are given for CorelCDX in the .INI file. For information about the CRLSCSI.INI options for the CorelCDX XMS caching program, see "CDXCACHE.BIN" in this file. You can configure CorelCDX not to terminate directory searches early. Add the option 'SlowSearch=YES' in the [CorelCDX] section of CRLSCSI.INI. With this option enabled, CorelCDX will find files even though the directory file is not correctly sorted. Note that by enabling this option, the overall system performance may be affected. This option is NOT supported by either DOS or Windows Configuration programs. You must enter the option manually. VERSION 5.0 OF MICROSOFT'S SMARTDRIVE DISK CACHE UTILITY: Version 5.0 of Microsoft's SmartDrive disk cache utility, provided with MS-DOS 6.2, is capable of caching CD-ROM drives. The program is designed to work exclusively with MSCDEX CD-ROM driver. However, Corel's PATCH_SD.COM program can modify the SMARTDRV.EXE to recognize CORELCDX as a valid CD-ROM driver and cache CD data. The SMARTDRV cache uses memory more efficiently than Corel CDXCACHE; the same block of memory will be used simultaneously for hard disk and CD disk caches. On the other hand, the CDXCACHE program has smaller overhead and operates faster then SMARTDRV. Note that the CORELCDX /UNLOAD option will not work with SmartDrive, as the cache program needs to be loaded after CorelCDX. PATCH_SD.COM is designed to modify version 5.0 of SMARTDRV.EXE (45145 bytes in size only). If the binary image does not match, the patch will not be installed. The patching program scans memory to locate the active SmartDrive cache program and from there, locates the original disk image of SMARTDRV.EXE. If the SmartDrive cache is not currently installed, the program prompts you to enter the full path and name of the disk file to patch. The original Microsoft SMARTDRV.EXE is saved in the same directory as SMARTDRV.MSC. For the patch to work, you need to reboot the system to reinstall SMARTDRV.EXE. For SmartDrive to recognize a CD device, the CorelCDX driver needs to be installed before SMARTDRV.EXE. Therefore, you must change the sequence of entries in AUTOEXEC.BAT. EXTENDED MEMORY CACHING USING CDXCACHE.BIN: CDXCACHE.BIN is an extended memory cache. For information about using CDXCACHE.BIN, see the online help provided with the Configuration utility. If you're using DOS 5.0, Norton Shell 6.0, and the extended memory cache, Windows won't run. Remove or upgrade any one of the three programs to resolve this problem. The CRLSCSI.INI file includes the following CDXCACHE options: * XMSSIZE indicates the cache size in kilobytes. You can set XMSSIZE to 0 to disable the XMS cache. Note that the number of tracks created on a CD by CDCOPY is affected by the amount of a vailable XMS memory, you should disable the extended XMS cache when using CDCOPY. -1 to use a default cache size, which is equal to one-quarter of the free XMS memory. a specific size from 64K to 16384K. * XMSPAGE configures the number of sectors per cache page, which determines the read-ahead operations. The value of 4 is recommended for smaller cache sizes; it's more important to cache separate disk reads than to perform read aheads. Use the value 8 for larger cache sizes; more data is stored in one operation. The default setting is 4 sectors per cache page. * XMSBLOCK represents the maximum size of read request in sectors that will be cached. The cache performance may benefit from larger values. However, the cache may fill up more quickly. The default setting is 4 sectors. CDSESN: If you run CDSESN, CD-ROM caching software (including CorelCDX/CDXCACHE) will flush any cached data for the specified drive even if the currently selected session is not changed. CDSESN ------- If you run CDSESN, CD-ROM caching software (including CorelCDX/CDXCACHE) will flush any cached data for the specified drive even if the currently selected session is not changed. CD-Audio 2 ---------- CD-Audio 2 for Windows is designed to work with a large variety of True Type fonts. However, fonts with very wide characters as well as other fonts won't display CD-Audio 2.0 supports Microsoft's Music Box 2.0. Any track information you've entered using MusicBox is imported into CD-Audio. If you're using an LMSI CM234 CD-ROM drive, the status information may not display the correct information. This is a problem with the drive rather than CD-Audio. Corel ArtView Screen Saver -------------------------- If you select the sound option on systems with lower memory configurations, you may experience long delays before an image is displayed or intermittent sound output. DOSAUDIO -------- If you're using an LMSI CM234 CD-ROM drive, the status information may not display the correct information. This is a problem with the drive rather than DOSAUDIO. CorelBook --------- Some systems running ATI Mach 32 video driver version 2.0 may experience problems loading CorelBook. Some systems running Standard mode Windows may experience problems closing CorelBook when CD-ROM media browser is loaded. With IBM PC-DOS 6.1, the Operating System Summary page reports the actual DOS version as DOS version 6.0. This is correct, as this version of DOS reports itself as 6.0. When unloading the CD-ROM Media Browser in Windows standard mode, problems may occur. The only fix, at this time, is to rename the CDMEDIA.CBL file to CDMEDIA.LBC. This means that the CD-ROM Media Browser won't be found by CorelBook. No problems have been found when using CD-ROM Media Browser in standard mode. There are known problems printing to printers that don't support graphics. Tabbing between controls doesn't work correctly on all pages. The page up and page down controls don't work in list boxes. Using these functions flips the page. Support for Kodak Photo CDs --------------------------- The Corel CD-ROM device driver for DOS and Windows (CUNI_ASP.SYS) currently supports Kodak PhotoCD with the following drives: Single session Multi session -------------- ------------- Chinon CDS435 Chinon CDS535 NEC CDR73 NEC CDR74-1 NEC CDR73M NEC CDR84-1 NEC CDR74 Panasonic CR-532 NEC CDR83 Philips CDD-521 NEC CDR83M Smart & Friendly HS-2200 i/e NEC CDR84 Sony CDU-561 Sony CDU-541 Teac CD-50 Sony CDU-6211 Texel DM-3024K Texel DM-5024 Texel DM-5024K Texel DM-3024 Toshiba XM3301 (with multi session upgrade) Toshiba XM3301 Toshiba XM3401 Other drives may be capable of reading Kodak Photo CDs, but have not been tested by Corel. DEVICE INFORMATION ================== Using the Pioneer DRM604X in SCSI-1 Mode ----------------------------------------- If you're using a Pioneer DRM604X in SCSI-1 mode with multi- session discs, the driver may time-out while waiting for the disc to mount and display a "Not ready reading drive..." error. If this error occurs, use Configuration to set the CD-ROM device driver TIMEOUT option to a value between 30 to 45. Additional Sense Codes for the Philps CDD521 Drive --------------------------------------------------- If a SCSI error occurs, the Philips CDD521 drive reports a sense code which may indicate the cause of the error. The following is a partial list of the sense codes reported by this drive. x08: COMMUNICATION FAILURE communication failure internal to drive prevented requested operation from being performed. x09: TRACK FOLLOWING ERROR focusing or radial tracking did not succeed. x15: POSITIONING ERROR seek to requested location on disc failed. x29: POWER-ON RESET OR BUS RESET OCCURRED power-on reset or bus reset occurred since last issued command. x2C: COMMAND SEQUENCE ERROR requested command is not allowed in this sequence. x31: MEDIUM FORMAT CORRUPTED drive is unable to read/write information due to corrupted or unknown disc format. x33: MONITOR ATIP ERROR error occurred in recorded data, likely due to dust or chock. x34: ABSORPTION CONTROL ERROR error may have occurred in recorded data, due to laser power clipping. x44: INTERNAL CONTROLLER ERROR drives internal controller detected an error which could not be otherwise explained. x47: SCSI PARITY ERROR controller detected a parity error. x50: WRITE APPEND ERROR write command failed. x57: UNABLE TO READ TOC, PMA OR SUBCODE drive was unable to read TOC, PMA, or subcode data from the disc. x81: ILLEGAL TRACK attempt to access a non-existent track. xA9: REQUEST FOR FIXATION FAILED disc could not be fixated due to existence of a blank area (reserved track) on disc. xAA: END OF MEDIUM REACHED while writing, the end of medium was detected or track limit of 99 was reached. xAB: ILLEGAL TRACK NUMBER invalid track # specified in command descriptor block. xAD: BUFFER UNDERRUN writing stopped because cache buffer emptied - data was not written to the drive quickly enough. xAF: OPTIMUM POWER CALIBRATION (OPC) ERROR power calibration failed, possibly due to wrong type of medium installed, laser or drive failure. xB0: CALIBRATION AREA ALMOST FULL few Optimum Power Calibration areas left. xB4: CALIBRATION AREA FULL Calibration area is full - no further writes can be made to disc. xD1: CAN NOT RECOVER FROM TRACK recovering from a corrupted track failed. xD2: CAN NOT RECOVER FROM PROGRAM MEMORY AREA recovering from a corrupted PMA failed. xD3: CAN NOT RECOVER FROM LEADIN AREA recovering from corrupted leadin area failed. xD4: CAN NOT RECOVER FROM LEADOUT AREA recovering from corrupted leadout area failed. xD5: CAN NOT RECOVER FROM OPTICAL POWER CALIBRATION AREA recovering from corrupted Optical Power Calibration area failed. CORELSCSI TECHNICAL SUPPORT =========================== If you have any suggestions or questions about this product that your distributor can't answer, contact: CorelSCSI Technical Support --------------------------- Voice: (613) 728-1010 CompuServe: type GO COREL