Omega Vehicle Security OMP-MODL manual Quick Test of the Pcmcia Drive Configuration

6... PCMCIA CARD CONFIGURATION AND USE

TIP: Upon boot of the PC with the standard drivers installed, the PD-1 will be assigned the next consecutive drive letter. For User’s requiring specific assignment of a drive letter to the PD-1 drive, the CONFIG.SYS file can be modified to force the PD-1 drive to be assigned to a particular drive letter. Refer to the Technical Support FAQ (frequently asked questions) sheet supplied with the drive for details.

TIP: For user’s that do not require control of the specific drive letter assigned to the PD-1 and want to minimize the size of the loaded PD-1 interface drivers, an older version of the CardTalk drivers (V2.16 for the TMD-550) is available. This version requires only 24K of memory and will support only the SRAM cards used in the OMP- MODL system. Additionally, this version of drivers does not allow for a User assigned drive letter... it will automatically use the next drive letter in the system.

If used, these drivers install into a directory called DATABOOK instead of the directory called CARDTALK referred to within this chapter.

NOTE:

The OMP-MODL and HyperWare PCMCIA card

system has been designed to be implemented using the external PD-1 PCMCIA drive. Users with PC’s equipped with integral PCMCIA drives may be able to utilize drivers supplied with their PC’s for read/write from DOS formatted SRAM PCMCIA cards. However due to the variability in PCMCIA card spec compliance and system configurations, considerable cautious experimentation may be required to implement the system.

Quick Test of the PCMCIA Drive Configuration

After installation of the drivers, reboot the PC and the drivers will be loaded into memory. The drive letter that the PCMCIA drive is installed as will be displayed briefly in the on-screen messages displayed during the system boot. Note this letter for future use.

If the system does not correctly identify the drive, error messages will display. Refer to the PCMCIA drive User’s Guide for instructions on troubleshooting drive configuration problems.

After a successful configuration, the drive installation can be simply tested as follows:

USING THE OMP-MODL 6-5