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___________________________________________________________________________
ICD CD-ROM DRIVE SOFTWARE
___________________________________________________________________________
ICD, Incorporated
1220 Rock Street
Rockford, IL 61101
U.S.A.
Technical Support: (815) 968-2228 ext 235
FAX: (815) 968-6888
___________________________________________________________________________
Notice: Advantage ST, AdSCSI ST, and The Link are trademarks of ICD, Inc.
Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of
their respective holder.
This documentation and the ICD XFS CD-ROM driver are copyright 1994 by ICD,
Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction or translation of any part of this
work (beyond that permitted by sections 107 and 108 of the United States
Copyright Act) without permission of the copyright owner is unlawful.
In no event will ICD, Inc. be liable for any damages whatsoever (including
without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business
interruption, loss of business information or the like) arising out of the
use of, interruption in the use of, or inability to use this software, even
if ICD, Inc. has been advised of any possibility or likelihood of such
damages.
MinT and its utilities are included with the permission of Atari Corp.
___________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION
If included as part of the ICD LINK software, this CD-ROM drive software
allows the use of standard SCSI-II-compatible CD-ROM drives connected to an
ICD Advantage ST, AdSCSI ST, or Link host adapter.
If included as part of the ICD PRO software, this CD-ROM drive software
allows the use of standard SCSI-II-compatible CD-ROM drives connected to the
Atari TT 030 and Falcon 030 SCSI ports as well as the above ICD host adapters.
This CD-ROM software also requires the presence of ICDBOOT with a minimum
version of 6.5.2.
NOTE: some older CD-ROM drives are not SCSI-II and will not work with this
software.
ICD's XFS and MinT will access both High Sierra and ISO-9660 format CD-ROMs.
INSTALLATION
Installing the CD-ROM software is fairly straightforward.
Make a MINT folder on one of your hard drive partitions. Copy the file
MINT.TOS into it and double-click on it. It is a self-extracting ZIP file
and will extract all the files. You should probably do this on a partition
other than drive C as space on C may be limited.
Copy MINT.PRG to your present AUTO folder. This is usually on drive C.
Note that MINT.PRG must be physically the last program in your AUTO folder.
(Remember that many versions of TOS display only sorted directories). If it
is not the last program, use a utility such as AUTO_ORG.PRG (from Codehead
Software) to reorganize your AUTO folder. Or, make a JUNK folder, copy all
files from your AUTO folder into JUNK, erase all files in AUTO, then copy
files from JUNK back into AUTO one by one, ending with MINT.PRG.
Make a folder on the boot drive called MINT. Copy the files GEM.SYS and
GEM.CNF into this folder. Copy the file MINT.CNF into the root directory of
the drive.
Copy the file ICDCDZ2.XFS into the root or main directory of the same drive
that your AUTO folder is on. The name of this file may have to be changed;
the characters after "ICDCD" indicate the logical drive that your CD-ROM
files will be under and the logical SCSI ID of your CD-ROM drive.
ICDCDdi.XFS
^^
|\
| \
| ---- is the logical SCSI ID of your drive unit in decimal
\ (1 through 7, 9 through 15). SEE TABLE BELOW.
\
\
---- is the logical drive you will use.
examples:
ICDCDZ2.XFS
^^
||
|\
| \
| ---- indicates physical SCSI ID of 2 and a logical SCSI ID
\ of 2, connected to DMA port of ST or TT using an ICD
\ host adapter.
\
---- indicates drive Z:.
ICDCDM10.XFS
^^
||
|\
| \
| ---- indicates physical SCSI ID of 2 and a logical SCSI ID
\ of 10, connected to SCSI port on TT or Falcon.
\
\
---- indicates drive M:.
The following table shows how to figure out the logical SCSI ID of your
CD-ROM drive. The physical SCSI ID is the one set on your drive through
jumpers or by a switch. You must translate the physical ID to a logical
ID as follows:
Port Physical SCSI ID Logical SCSI ID
-----------------------------------------------
DMA port (on 1 1
ST and TT) 2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
SCSI port 1 9
(on TT and Falcon) 2 10
3 11
4 12
5 13
6 14
7 15
If you do not know the physical ID of your CD-ROM drive, hook it up and run
the IDCHECK program.
Note that IDs 0 and 8 are NOT ALLOWED. In addition, the ID 15 is generally
used by the TT or Falcon and is NOT ALLOWED unless you have changed the
initiator ID of your computer, which is possible only to the sophisticated
user. Contact ICD if you want to do this.
If necessary, do a 'Show Info' and rename ICDCDZ2.XFS as needed.
Now, reboot your computer. Your bootup will proceed as normally, and MinT
should install at the end of your AUTO folder. MinT will load your XFS
file and show the name, logical ID, and logical drive of your CD-ROM unit.
If an error is encountered, a message will be printed and you must then
press any key to continue, but the XFS driver will not have been loaded.
Next, you will see the MinT signon dialog, followed by the loading of your
accessories and then the MinT desktop. At this point you can install an
icon for drive Z: (or whatever drive you select) and double-click on it
to display the contents of the CD-ROM in the drive.
SUPPORT
ICD will provide technical support on its XFS driver and the installation
of MinT and the drive in regard to access of CD-ROMs only. Due to constraints
in time and personnel, the rest of the MinT package cannot be supported by
ICD. Phone support is normally available 10 AM to 2 PM Central Time Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, or send a FAX or letter and it will be answered in
like fashion as soon as possible.
ADVICE
If you do not want to run MinT all the time, set up SUPERBT or DESKMGR to
allow you to have separate bootup schemes for normal and MinT sessions.
SUPERBT is a shareware program available on the ICD BBS. DESKMGR is
available from Codehead Software. Remember to support shareware authors!