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CD-ROM device driver for IDE V1.0 README file
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I. General
II. Environments
III. The Procedures of Installation
IV. Changing Settings


I. General
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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
CDDRV.SYS -- CD-ROM device driver



II. Environments
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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. The Procedures of Installation
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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:\CDROM) 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 :
DEVICE=C:\CDROM\CDDRV.SYS /D:CD001


AUTOEXEC.BAT :
C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CD001 /M:10



IV. Changing Settings
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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=\CDDRV.SYS /D:

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

Example:
DEVICE=C:\CDROM\CDDRV.SYS /D:CD001


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:CD001 /M:10

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

	Filename	Size	Readme	O.S.	Description
	odc6x8x.zip	42KB	odc6x8x.htm		This is the ATAPI/DOS driver for the ODC 6x and 8x IDE CD-ROMs.