For you to use ATA hard disk or ATA Flash disk cards on your
system, your CONFIG.SYS file must contain the following line. The
standard device drivers are always required:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.EXE
Formatting or Initializing a Card
Attention
Make sure you are using the correct drive letter when formatting
or initializing your ATA card, because any information on the
specified drive is erased.
Formatting an ATA Card
To format an ATA card:
1
Type the following command
FORMAT drive_letter /U
Note:
drive_letter
is the drive letter assigned to the card.
For example, if the card has been assigned to drive D,
type
format D: /U
2
Press Enter.
Initializing an ATA Card
To initialize an ATA card, run the ATAINIT command from the DOS
prompt, and then use the standard DOS format command to format
the ATA card.
Note:
ATAINIT works only with ATA cards that are supported by the
ATADRV driver. If you cannot use your ATA card, it might be
an unsupported card. Check with the manuals that came with
the card.
ATAINIT.EXE is a disk-partitioning utility that must be used to
initialize any ATA cards supported by ATADRV. When a new ATA
card is inserted into a PC Card slot, you need to initialize the card by
using ATAINIT. ATAINIT finds the physical parameters (number of
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