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Chapter Three
AM-6060 Computer Owner's Manual, Rev. 00
Saving the CMOS Settings
When you are finished making changes press
ESC
. A message will appear at the bottom of the screen
asking if you wish to save any changes made. Type "Y" to save the changes in the CMOS RAM, or "N"
to abandon any changes made. After you enter your response, the system will boot using the saved
CMOS settings.
Important Note
If you want to boot from a physical disk device other than device ID 0, you should create a disk driver
for the selected drive ID and MONGEN it into the monitor. You must do this if you want to be able to
MONTST using your boot monitor. While a hardware reset will work if the monitor contains the generic
SCZR60.DVR, because it reads the drive ID from CMOS, MONTST does not look at the CMOS
settings, and so will not know which drive to boot from unless the drive ID is embedded in the driver.
DEVICE NAMES
Device names are how AMOS identifies the different pieces of equipment that make up your computer.
Each disk drive and other storage device has its own device name (terminals and printers are defined
somewhat differently). These device names are defined in the system initialization file.
Alpha Micro device names conform to a specific format to make it easy for you and the computer to
refer to the same piece of equipment. All device names contain three letters and a number, and end with
a colon (:): for example, DSK#:, where # is a decimal number. DSK is usually the name for a hard disk
device and STR0: is the name of a streaming tape drive.
Having names for each device lets you specify which device you want to use for a specific command.
For example, you can see a list of files from just one of your disk drives, or copy data from one hard disk
to another.
You can set up your computer to use each hard disk drive as if it were two or more separate devices. In
this case, the actual disk drive is called the "physical device" and each portion of it is a "logical device."
This is an important distinction, since in most cases with AMOS you refer to the logical device name.
For example, a single 2.1GB hard disk drive could contain devices named DSK0:, DSK1:, DSK2:,
DSK3:, and so on.
The disk device containing your system initialization command file and other system software, the
device AMOS "boots from," is always called DSK0:. Normally this is the first logical device on the first
hard disk, but if for some reason you boot from a different drive, it becomes DSK0:. When you change
the device you boot from, it may also change the names of other devices on your computer—since you
are using a different system initialization command file the devices may be defined differently.
For example, if your computer contains one hard disk drive split into three logical devices, and a second
hard drive divided into six logical devices:
