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- 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
-