Creative GCD-R542B manual IDE Port Addr, irq Addresses Used

The descriptions of the parameters are as follows:

Parameter	Description
path	Specifies the directory where the driver is stored.
/D:device	Specifies the name of the CD-ROM drive. This must be
	identical to the device name specified by the MSCDEX
	statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The
	installation default setting is MSCD001.
/P:addr,irq	Specifies the base I/O address (addr) in hexadecimal
	and IRQ line (irq) for the IDE CD-ROM interface on
	your card. addr can be 1F0, 170, 1E8 (default), or 168.
	irq can be 10, 11 (default), 12, 14, or 15. See Table 4-1.
	Table 4-1: Standard settings for IDE ports.
		IDE Port		addr, irq	I/O Addresses Used
	Primary			1F0, 14	1F0H to 1F7H,
					3F6H to 3F7H
	Secondary			170, 15	170H to 177H,
					376H to 377H
	Tertiary			1E8, 11 or 12	1E8H to 1EFH
	Quaternary			168, 10 or 11	168H to 16FH
			Select the Primary Port only if you connect your
			drive to the primary hard disk controller card.
			Also, you can only connect two IDE devices to
			each IDE port in a system and the names of these
			IDE ports do not indicate any kind of sequence
			for adding IDE devices.
/V	Displays the drive type, firmware version, port address,
	and interrupt of your drive.

You can also run CDSETUP to change the base I/O address and IRQ line of your card. Refer to the section “Running CDSETUP” in this chapter for more information.

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-3