Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-3
The descriptions of the parameters are as follows:
Parameter
Description
path
Specifies the directory where the driver is stored.
/D:
device
Specifies the name of the CD-ROM drive. This must be
identical to the device name specified by the MSCDEX
statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The
installation default setting is MSCD001.
/P
:addr,irq
Specifies the base I/O address (
addr
) in hexadecimal
and IRQ line (
irq
) for the IDE CD-ROM interface on
your card.
addr
can be 1F0, 170, 1E8 (default), or 168.
i
rq
can be 10, 11 (default), 12, 14, or 15. See Table 4-1.
Select the Primary Port only if you connect your
drive to the primary hard disk controller card.
Also, you can only connect two IDE devices to
each IDE port in a system and the names of these
IDE ports do not indicate any kind of sequence
for adding IDE devices.
/V
Displays the drive type, firmware version, port address,
and interrupt of your drive.
You can also run CDSETUP to change the base I/O address and
IRQ line of your card. Refer to the section “Running
CDSETUP” in this chapter for more information.
Table 4-1: Standard settings for IDE ports.
IDE Port
addr, irq
I/O Addresses Used
Primary
1F0, 14
1F0H to 1F7H,
3F6H to 3F7H
Secondary
170, 15
170H to 177H,
376H to 377H
Tertiary
1E8, 11 or 12
1E8H to 1EFH
Quaternary
168, 10 or 11
168H to 16FH
