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___________________________________________________________________________
STACKER NOTE STACKER NOTE
Title: Stacker and the Tandy Sensation!
STAC FAX Index #3503 - 02/08/93
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Background.
Tandy's Sensation Computer is a Multimedia compatible 486SX with a
built in CD-ROM drive. The compatibility issue with Tandy's Sensation
Computer revolves around the fact that some of the software which
comes with this system makes direct hardware calls to the CD-ROM
drive. The actual CD-ROM is capable of being setup as any drive
letter. However, the software included with this system requires the
CD-ROM drive to be accessed as drive D:.
Tandy National Technical Support is suggesting to their Sensation
customers who are using Stacker, to utilize the ASSIGN command from
DOS to reassign letters so that the CD-ROM drive appears as drive D:.
This approach has worked in many instances.
Procedure.
The first thing that Stacker users will need to do is properly
configure the CD-ROM drive on their Tandy Sensation to work with
Stacker. Use following procedure to accomplish this task.
1. CONFIG.SYS - Here is a sample Config.sys. It is recommended
that the CD-ROM Device Driver be loaded after SSWAP.COM as shown.
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE (this is required if running under DOS 5.0)
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM * C:\STACVOL.DSK .....etc.
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK /SYNC
DEVICE=SONYCDU.SYS or DEVICE=PCD650S.SYS [/D:name /B:xxx /M:mode]
2. AUTOEXEC.BAT - The CD-ROM drive letter is assigned here with
the /L: parameter on the MSCDEX command line. Take note of the Stacker
drive letter assignments at boot time. For example, to determine
which drive letters Stacker has been given, type:
C:\STACKER\STACKER <ENTER>
The output will look similar to:
STACKER - Stac Electronics, Carlsbad, CA
Drive C: was drive D: at boot time [ D:\STACVOL.DSK ]
Drive D: was drive C: at boot time
Set the CD-ROM to the next available drive letter. In this example,
drive E: is available for the CD-ROM. In Autoexec.bat you would
assign drive E: on the MSCDEX command line,
MSCDEX /D:name /M:x /V /L:letter /E
Change /L:Letter to /L:E
MSCDEX /D:name /M:x /V /L:E /E
Now that the CD-ROM drive has been configured to function with Stacker
installed, it is necessary to reassign the CD-ROM back to drive D: so
that the Tandy software will recognize it.
1. Place an asterisk on the STACKER.COM device line in
CONFIG.SYS. The Asterisk should be placed in front of the reference to
the Stacvol.dsk file as in the following example.
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM * C:\STACVOL.DSK
2. Add the ASSIGN command to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file below below
the MSCDEX command line as follows, and then reboot: ASSIGN D: E:
The result of this procedure is that the Tandy CD-ROM software will
now recognize the CD-ROM drive as D:. Drive F: and Drive D: will
appear as having the same data on them because they are actually the
same drive.
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Copyright 1993, Stac Electronics