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README file for CD-ROM device driver for IDE V1.0
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I. Introduction
II. Requirements
III. Installation Procedures
IV. Changing Settings after Installation
V. FastCD

I. Introduction
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The CD-ROM packet comes with an installation utility. This installs
the nessary CD-ROM drivers needed by your CD-ROM drive to interface
with your PC.

Files
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The drive installation diskette includes the following files:

README.TXT -- User's guide
INSTALL.EXE -- CD-ROM installation program
ACERCD.SYS -- CD-ROM device driver

II. Requirements
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Hardware Requirements
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1. IBM PC/AT or compatible (80386-base system recommended)
2. Minimum EGA graphic display (VGA recommended)
3. Minimum 2M RAM recommended
4. one free IDE socket
5. one CD-ROM drive

Software Requirement
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1. Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later
2. MS-DOS version 5.0 or later
3. MS-DOS CD-Extension (MSCDEX 2.21) or later

III. Installation Procedures
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To install CD-ROM device driver, please follow the steps below:

1. Insert the installation diskette in your system's 3.5-inch floppy
disk drive.

2. Change the directory to that of your floppy disk drive, and type
the following at the DOS prompt:

INSTALL

3. Follow the screen instructions to complete the installation.

4. Reboot system to activate the driver.

In general, you can just continually press the Enter key to install
the default settings. A directory (default C:\ACER) containing the
CD-ROM drivers is created during installation. Your AUTOEXEC.BAT
and CONFIG.SYS files are also modified to include the following lines:

CONFIG.SYS :
[common]
DEVICE=C:\ACERCD\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD00
LASTDRIVE=N

AUTOEXEC.BAT :
C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:ACERCD00

IV. Changing Settings after Installation
=========================================

To reconfigure the settings of the CD-ROM driver, use a text editor,
such as EDIT.COM, to modify the previous two command lines in CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT and then restart your computer to activate it.

Changing the CONFIG.SYS file
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DEVICE=\ACERCD.SYS /D: /E: /Z

The is the name MSCDEX will use to find the device
driver. The maximum length of string is 8 characters.

Example:
DEVICE=C:\MYDRV\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD01

The specifies the software cache size of the FastCD. (Refer to
V. FastCD ).

The option "/Z" disables the message display when the device driver is
loading.

Changing the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
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MSCDEX /D:driver [/E] [/K] [/S] [/V] [/L:letter] [/M:number]

Example:
C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:ACERCD01 /L:G /M:10

For more information, you can refer to the MS-DOS online help for MSCDEX
by typing HELP MSCDEX.

V. FastCD
==========

FastCD is the "Software Cache" function which use the EMS memory to
accelerate CD-ROM access speed .

Because it uses EMS memory , you must add the following two lines into
your CONFIG.SYS :

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM

And , to enable this function , you must attach an option papameter -
"/E" or "/e" to ACERCD.SYS :

DEVICE=C:\ACERCD\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD00 /E , or

DEVICE=C:\ACERCD\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD00 /e

These will reserve 2048 KB to be the Cache Buffer ; if you want to
tune the reserved cache size , attach the parameter "/E:#####" to
ACERCD.SYS :

DEVICE=C:\ACERCD\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD00 /E:1024 , or

DEVICE=C:\ACERCD\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD00 /e:5192

The maximum cache size is 32 MBytes , and its unit is 16 KB ,
For example : if we want 17 KB , it will reserve 32 KB .

Notice : IF EMS memory is NOT enough , ACERCD.SYS will DISABLE
FastCD .

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Filename	Size	Readme	O.S.	Description
610a211.exe	76KB	610a211.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for these Acer (and Vuego) IDE Cd-Roms:610A / 612A / 616A / 616P / 620A / 624A / 645A / 655A / 665A / 685A.
acer525e.exe	43KB	acer525e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 525E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer610a.exe	76KB	acer610a.htm		his is the ATAPI/DOS driver for these Acer (and Vuego) IDE Cd-Roms: 610A/612A/645A/655A/665A/685A.
acer625a.exe	44KB	acer625a.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 625A IDE Cd-Rom.
acer743e.exe	48KB	acer743e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 743E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer747e.exe	45KB	acer747e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 747E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer767e.exe	49KB	acer767e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 767E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer787e.exe	1KB	acer787e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 787E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer910e.exe	49KB	acer910e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 910E/912E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer912e.exe	59KB	acer912e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 912E IDE Cd-Rom.
acer916e.exe	59KB	acer916e.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the Acer (and Vuego) 916E IDE Cd-Rom.
cdv212.exe	155KB	cdv212.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for these Acer (and Vuego) IDE Cd-Roms:624A / 632A / 6202A.

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