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- ****** Information for custom setting the driver ******
- ****** for the Double Speed SONY CDU33A series. ******
-
- The followings show you how to install CD-ROM device driver software in
- comfig.sys
-
- You need to go through the followings to install the CD-ROM software
- only if you are installing a new CD-ROM drive.
-
- If you are simply connecting an existing CD-ROM drive to our sound card with
- pre-installed device driver software, skip the following sections. You should
- be able to use your existing CD-ROM drive after it is physically connected to
- our card with the proper I/O address selected. (See usermanual, Sec 1-3)
-
- NOTE:
- The file MSCDEX.EXE is not furnished unless the card is bundled with a
- CD-ROM drive supplied by us. Automatic CD-ROM software installation by
- running SETUP.EXE will fail without this file. You may obtain this file
- from your CD-ROM drive supplier, or, if you have DOS version 6.0 or up,
- obtain the file from the operating system. Once you secure the MSCDEX.EXE,
- you may copy this file to the subdirectory \CDROM\SONY, and then follow
- instructions to automatically or manually install the CD-ROM software.
-
- Put the diskette into your floppy drive, change driver to drive A or B.
- At the system prompt, change the directory by entering:
-
- A:\>cd \CDROM\SONY [Enter]
- or
- B:\>cd \CDROM\SONY [Enter]
-
- ,depending on which drive you use. An installation routine SETUP.EXE has
- been provided to assist you installing the software. Assuming you are in
- A, enter:
-
- A:\CDROM\SONY>SETUP [Enter]
-
- This program will guide you step by step to setup CD-ROM device driver
- parameters. Please refer to the section below to learn more about how to
- change device driver parameters.
-
- You may manually install the driver, by completing the following steps:
-
- Step 1. Use any text editor to add the following two lines to the file
- "CONFIG.SYS" under your boot hard disk root-directory (Drive C in
- general).
-
- Device=[drive:]\DEV\ SLCD.SYS [/B:xxx] [/D:device name]
- LASTDRIVE = drive letter
-
- /B:xxx
- xxx is the I/O port address as set on S1 of the sound card. The
- default is 320H.
-
- /D:device name
- specifies device driver name that is used by the Microsoft MS-
- DOS CD-ROM extension file as MSCDEX. MSCD000 is the commonly
- used device driver name, when none is specified.
-
- /Lastdrive:=drive letter
- Enter the proper drive letter name according to your system
- configuration. For example, if you already have 3 hard drives,
- use "f". If this qualifier is not specified, the default used by
- DOS is "e".
-
- Step 2. Add the following line to the file "AUTOEXEC.BAT" under your boot
- hard disk root-directory (Drive C in general).
-
- [drive:][path] MSCDEX [/D:device name] [/M:n] [/E] [/V] [/L:drive letter]
-
- NOTE:
- The actual MSCDEX.EXE command line in the autoexec.bat file is not
- truncated and should be placed entirely on one line.
-
- [drive:][path] MSCDEX.EXE
- Specifies the location (drive and directory) of the MSCDEX.EXE file.
- The default setting is the BIN directory of the boot drive
-
- /D:device name
- Specifies the name of the CD-ROM drive (8 characters maximum).
- This must be identical to the device name specified in the
- device driver in the CONFIG.SYS file. For example:
-
- C:\BIN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000
-
- [/M:n]
- Specifies the number of sector buffers for temporary storage of
- the most recent disc data. For example to specify ten sector
- buffers you would use:
-
- C:\BIN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:10
-
- The installation program will set this value to 10.
- The default value is 4.
-
- NOTE:
- The greater this value , the better the CD-ROM drive will
- perform. However, each buffer uses about 2K of memory and
- specifying too many buffers may slow down computer operation
- or interfere with other programs which have large memory usage
- requirements. Using expanded memory (see the /E option in this
- section) or loading MSCDEX.EXE into high memory (refer to your
- MS-DOS Users Manual or Memory Manager Users Manual) may allow
- you to specify a larger number of buffers to enhance CD-ROM
- performance and operate programs with large memory usage
- requirements simultaneously.
-
- [/E]
- Instructs the computer to use expanded memory, if available. For
- example:
-
- C:\BIN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /E
-
- Note that you must first load an expanded memory driver before
- using this option. If no expanded memory driver is load, the
- following error message appears:
-
- Expanded memory not present or not usable
-
- [/V]
- Instructs the computer to display a summary of RAM allocation
- and expanded memory usage at booting. For Example, specifying:
-
- C:\BIN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /V
-
- will cause the computer to display memory information in the
- following format:
-
-
- 5556864 bytes free memory
- 0 bytes expanded memory
- 12752 bytes CODE
- 1712 bytes static DATA
- 12618 bytes dynamic DATA
- 27344 bytes used
-
- [/L:drive letter]
- Specifies the drive letter to be assigned to the first CD-ROM
- drive. Do not assign a letter already used by an existing drive
- or the computer will be unable to access the CD-ROM drive. For
- example, you might use:
-
- C:\BIN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /L:f
-
- Normally, the CD-ROM drive is assigned the next available
- drive letter on the computer after the floppy drives, hard
- drives, RAM drives, etc. Therefore you only need to use this
- option if it is necessary to assign a drive letter beyond the
- last letter in use.
-
- Step 3. Create two sub-directory BIN & DEV under the root directory on your
- boot hard disk ( drive C in general ). Copy both files CDMKE.SYS to
- the subdirectory BIN & MSCDEX.EXE to the subdirectory DEV from
- the subdirectory \CDROM\SONY on the floppy diskette.
-
- If you are installing the CD-ROM drive in a networked system, please consult
- your system manager or system setup for proper drive specifications in
- Step 1 to Step 3.