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- QUANTUM IDE HARD DISK INSTALLATION SOFTWARE
- SPECIAL INFORMATION
-
-
- This file includes important notes as well as information about the
- Quantum IDE Hard Disk Installation Software. It is intended to
- provide you with the most accurate and up-to-date information on the
- installation software contained on the Quantum IDE Hard Disk
- Installation Software Diskette. Please take the time to review the
- following issues so that you are properly prepared to install the
- Quantum IDE hard disk in your computer system.
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- 1. ABOUT THE DETAILED DOS INSTALLATION FOR QUANTUM IDE HARD DISKS
- ONLINE MANUAL
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- 2. MS DOS 5.0 AND 6.0 CONSIDERATIONS
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- 3. MEMORY MANAGERS THAT USE STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
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- 4. DR DOS 6.0
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- 5. WYSE DOS 3.1 AND OLIVETTI DOS 3.1
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- 6. EVEREX STEP 386
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- 7. USING EXTENDED DRIVE-TYPE TABLES ON WYSE 3225 AND 2116 SYSTEMS
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- 8. USING 386 MEMORY MANAGERS TO LOAD IDE_DOS.SYS IN HIGH MEMORY
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- 9. LOADING BLOCK DEVICE DRIVERS FROM FLOPPY DISKETTE
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- 10. PASSPORT XL OR PASSPORT BOOT SWITCH
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- 1. ABOUT THE DETAILED DOS INSTALLATION FOR QUANTUM IDE HARD DISKS
- ONLINE MANUAL
-
- In addition to this README file and the printed Quantum IDE Hard Disk
- Installation Software Manual, there is a detailed online manual
- located on the Quantum IDE Hard Disk Installation Software Diskette,
- under the file name MANUAL.COM. The online manual provides additional
- information on using the features of the INSTALL program.
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- 2. MS DOS 5.0 AND 6.0 CONSIDERATIONS
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- A) MS DOS 5.0 AND 6.0 INSTALL FROM STARTUP DISKS
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- If you are installing DOS from "STARTUP" disks (not the upgrade)
- refer to the INSTALLATION FOR DOS section in the online manual.
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- B) MS DOS 5.0 AND 6.0 UPGRADE UNINSTALL
-
- If you have a Quantum IDE hard disk, installed using IDE_DOS.SYS, on a
- system that you have upgraded to MS DOS 5.0 or 6.0, and you wish to
- uninstall the upgrade, use the following procedure:
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- a. Boot your system from a bootable DOS diskette that has a
- CONFIG.SYS file containing a DEVICE = IDE_DOS.SYS statement and
- the IDE_DOS.SYS file on the diskette.
-
- b. After the system has booted up, remove the DOS diskette from
- drive A and insert the Uninstall diskette created during the DOS
- upgrade.
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- c. Run the AUTOEXEC.BAT file by typing the following command and
- pressing <Enter>:
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- A>autoexec
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- d. Complete the Uninstall process.
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- 3. MEMORY MANAGERS THAT USE STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
-
- Before you attempt to run the INSTALL program to install a Quantum IDE
- hard disk on a system where you are using a memory manager that uses
- "stealth" technology you must disable the "stealth" option. Memory
- managers that use "stealth" technology hide the BIOS drive-type tables
- so that the INSTALL program cannot find them.
-
- An alternative to disabling the "stealth" option would be to manually
- set the BIOS drive-type using your computer's SETUP program and then
- run the INSTALL program.
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- 4. DR DOS 6.0
-
- If you are using DR DOS 6.0 on your computer system and you wish to
- install a Quantum IDE hard disk using the INSTALL program, refer to
- the appropriate instructions below.
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- A) Installing the Quantum IDE hard disk as the first hard disk
-
- Do not use the Quantum IDE DOS device driver. DR DOS has a non-
- standard DOS boot block, so the INSTALL program cannot properly
- setup the first disk for use with the Quantum IDE DOS device
- driver.
-
- When you install the Quantum IDE hard disk on a system using DR
- DOS 6.0, the INSTALL program will not make the hard disk
- bootable. To make the hard disk bootable, complete the
- installation using the INSTALL program, then reboot your system
- using a bootable DR DOS diskette. Run the DR DOS SYS.COM
- utility on the C drive at the A: prompt as follows
-
- A>sys c:
-
- Remove the diskette from the floppy disk drive and reboot your
- system from the C drive.
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- B) Installing the Quantum IDE hard disk as the second hard disk
-
- Run the INSTALL program to partition and format your Quantum IDE
- hard disk.
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- C) Using the Quantum IDE DOS device driver
-
- If you are using the Quantum IDE DOS device driver, we recommend
- that the "DEVICE = IDE_DOS.SYS" be the first "DEVICE ="
- statement in the CONFIG.SYS. While this precludes the use of
- HILOAD to load the device driver into upper memory, loading the
- device driver into upper memory would reduce the amount of
- memory available to applications. If you are using HIDOS.SYS or
- EMM386.SYS, you may need to add the "/BDOS=FFFF" option to the
- appropriate "DEVICE = " command line in the CONFIG.SYS file.
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- 5. WYSE DOS 3.1 AND OLIVETTI DOS 3.1
-
- When you install the Quantum IDE hard disk on a system using either a
- Wyse or Olivetti system using the manufacturer's DOS version 3.1, the
- INSTALL program will not make the first hard disk bootable. To make
- the first hard disk bootable, complete the installation using the
- INSTALL program, then reboot your system using a bootable DOS
- diskette. Run the DOS SYS.COM utility on the C drive at the A: prompt
- as follows:
-
- A>sys C:
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- Remove the diskette from the floppy disk drive and reboot your system
- from the C drive.
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- NOTE: If you installed the Quantum IDE hard disk using the Quantum IDE
- DOS device driver option, make sure that your bootable DOS
- diskette has a CONFIG.SYS file containing a "DEVICE =
- IDE_DOS.SYS" statement. The IDE_DOS.SYS file must also be on
- the bootable DOS diskette.
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- 6. EVEREX STEP 386
-
- The INSTALL program typically determines which BIOS drive-type to use
- when configuring your system. However, the INSTALL program does not
- work properly with some Everex Step 386 computer systems because the
- drive-type table in their system BIOS is not in the standard location.
- Therefore, you must determine the best BIOS drive-type manually.
-
- Look in your Everex User's Guide to find the listing of all the BIOS
- drive-types that your computer supports. Scan through the list and
- find a drive-type capacity that is close to (but not exceeding) the
- size of your Quantum IDE hard disk. When you have selected a drive-
- type that looks like a good candidate, you should perform the
- following calculation to ensure that you have not picked a drive-type
- that is too large. To do this, multiply this drive-type's Number of
- Cylinders times Number of Heads times Number of Sectors per Track
- times 512. The values to substitute for these numbers are provided in
- this same table. The result is exactly the number of bytes that are
- available for this drive-type. Make sure that this number does not
- exceed maximum number of bytes on your Quantum IDE hard disk. Refer
- to the Specifications included in the hardware installation manual
- that came with your Quantum hard disk.
-
- When you have determined the BIOS drive-type that comes closest to
- matching (WITHOUT EXCEEDING) the true capacity of your Quantum IDE
- hard disk, run the computer's SETUP program to enter this drive-type.
- Then run the INSTALL program to partition and format your Quantum IDE
- hard disk.
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- 7. USING EXTENDED DRIVE-TYPE TABLES ON WYSE 3225 AND 2116 SYSTEMS
-
- We advise that you check the extended drive-type displayed in the Set
- CMOS Configuration screen with the corresponding drive-type in your
- computer's SETUP program. If the values do not match, you should not
- use this selection.
-
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- 8. USING 386 MEMORY MANAGERS TO LOAD IDE_DOS.SYS IN HIGH MEMORY
-
- If you use a 386 memory manager (with the exception of QEMM v5 and v6)
- to load the Quantum IDE DOS device driver into high memory, the system
- may report that you have slightly less than 640KB of conventional
- memory available, even though the full 640KB of conventional memory is
- available to application programs. We recommend that you do not load
- the IDE_DOS.SYS device driver into high memory.
-
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- 9. LOADING BLOCK DEVICE DRIVERS FROM FLOPPY DISKETTE
-
- If you boot your computer system from a DOS floppy diskette, loading
- IDE_DOS.SYS and also a block device driver, such as a RAM disk device
- driver or SCSI device driver, the block device driver may display the
- wrong drive letter (higher than the actual drive letter) when
- initializing the RAM disk. Please note, this does not affect the
- actual drive letter and the RAM disk can be accessed using the correct
- letter. For example, if you have a system configured so that drive D
- is a RAM disk, the device driver may indicate that a RAM disk at drive
- E has been initialized. This RAM disk can be correctly accessed as
- drive D.
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- 10. PASSPORT XL OR PASSPORT BOOT SWITCH
-
- If you have a system containing a Passport XL or Passport hard drive
- and a Quantum IDE hard disk installed using IDE_DOS.SYS, the Windows
- FastDisk feature will not be enabled if you boot your system using
- the BOOT switch.
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