Updating

the

device

driver

for

a

DOS

network

server

If you

are using the

CD-ROM

drive

in

a DOS

network

server you need to make the

following

changes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Add the /S parameter to the MSCDEX line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

2. Verify that the MSCDEX

line

 

is

located

after

the

line

that

loads

the

network

services

(NET

START

for

IBM

 

PC

LAN

program).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Do one

of

the

following,

depending

on

your

operating

system:

 

 

 

 

If

you

are

using

DOS

3.3,

be

sure

you

havePC Local Area Network (LAN)

 

Program Corrective

Service

Diskette

 

level IP00755 or later installed.

 

 

If

you

are

using

DOS

4.0,

be

sure

you

haveDOS Corrective Service Diskette

 

level

UR

29015

or

later

installed.

(The

computer

cannot

be

configured

as an

Extended

Services

Domain

Controller

for

the IBM PC LAN Program.)

 

 

Contact

your

IBM

reseller

for

more

information

about

the

PC

LAN

Program

 

Corrective Service

Diskette

 

or the

DOS Corrective

Service

Diskette .

 

OS/2 software

User

requirements

vary, and

you

might need

to

customize the

setup

that DDINSTAL

has

installed on

your

computer.

This

section

provides

information

and

describes

parameters that

you

might

need

to

change or

add

for

your installation.

Device manager driver

OS/2 uses the OS2CDROM.DMD device driver

DEVICE=OS2CDROM.DMD [Options]

to control all CD-ROM devices. The following options are available:

/V Instructs the computer to display the installation details.

/Q Suppresses messages during initialization.

Device driver filter

OS/2 uses the device driver filter IBMIDECD.FLT for ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM drives.

BASEDEV=IBMIDECD.FLT [Options]

The following option is available:

/V Instructs the computer to display installation details.

Installable file system driver

The file

system driver

for

OS/2

is

CDFS.IFS.

The following

options

are

available:

/C:n

Indicates

how

many

64

KB

RAM

segments

will be

used for

the

sector cache.

 

The default

is

two

64

KB

RAM

segments.

 

 

 

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