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Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities
The MCMaster is designed to function as a self-contained product. In most installations, all the special program code required to make the MCMaster function is contained in its option ROM. However, your MCMaster option disk does include a few utilities to help maintain and configure the board, along with a few drivers for specific situations. This appendix describes these utilities and drivers.
EPROM.EXE ROM update program
The MCMaster's Option ROM is an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory.) This technology makes it possible to update the MCMaster's option ROM without removing the board from the host system.
The EPROM.EXE utility is provided for just this purpose on the MCMaster option disk.
CAUTION: Only run EPROM.EXE in a "plain-vanilla" DOS environment. Don't run it under QEMM, 386MAX, EMM386, or any other protected-mode environments, including Windows 3.0 or 3.1. These programs use the 386/486 processor's memory mapping capabilities to enhance memory space for their own purposes. An unfortunate side effect of this is that writes to the MCMaster's EEPROM can go astray, garbling the EEPROM's contents. You MUST disable any memory management software before running EPROM.EXE.
Note: EPROM must be run with the original processor in control of the system.
Note: EPROM will work in an OS/2 DOS window, but not in a Windows 3.0/3.1 DOS window.
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