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MS-DOS/Windows 3.1x Driver Installation

are 1-9 and D or d. The D or d values are used to Disable the time out mechanism. If the time out mechanism is disabled then faulty hardware can lock up the system.

Examples: /T4

/Td

/TD

/T1

/X /x This option is used to exclude particular CD-ROM drives. Excluded CDROM drives are identified by specifying the host adapter, target id and lun. These values are spereated by a colon. Groups of CDROM drives (or wild cards) can also be identified. Below are examples of the different ways CDROM drives can be excluded:

/X0:1:2

This will exclude the drive on Host Adapter 0, with target ID 1

 

and lun 2.

/X0:2

This will exclude the drive on Host Adapter 0, with target ID 2

 

and ANY lun

/X0

This will exclude ALL drives on Host Adapter 0.

SAMPLE CONFIG.SYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT FILES

These samples assume that the user has loaded the Initio drivers in the following directory: c:\iniaspi.

Config.sys:

DEVICEHIGH=c:\iniaspi\aspi910u

DEVICEHIGH=c:\iniaspi\inicd.sys /D:INICD001

Explanation:

The first line loads the ASPI manager and the second line loads the CDROM driver specifying the device name INICD001.

Autoexec.bat:

Mscdex /D:INICD001

Explanation:

This line will load the Microsoft supplied mscdex.exe file instructing it to attach to the CD-ROM device driver INICD001.

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Initio I/O HIGHWAY manual Autoexec.bat, Sample CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT Files