You should familiarize yourself with the chapter on Termination in your drive’s
Operation Manual. However, the quick solution here is to place your internal drive
at one end of the SCSI ribbon cable and the SCSI controller at the other end of the
cable. Your CD-ROM drive ships from the factory with termination enabled so
everything should be fine. If you put another SCSI device between the controller and
the drive, you need to make sure termination is disabled on that device. For external
devices, if your drive is the last in a chain of devices, leave termination enabled. If it
is not last in the chain, disable termination.
Finally, controllers that are not SCAM capable will not likely have automatic termi-
nation. You will need to make sure termination of your controller is set properly. If
you have both internal and external devices attached, the termination on your
controller should be disabled. Review the controller’s documentation to determine
how to do this. If you have ONLY internal devices, or ONLY external devices,
termination of your SCSI controller should remain enabled.
Install Software
After your drive and SCSI controller are installed, it is time to make the right software
device driver files available to support your new controller.
Turn on your computer
and start up Windows 95, and your system should automatically detect and configure
your SCSI controller. If you have just installed a new controller, Windows 95 will
recognize that it does not have the right driver available. A dialog box named ‘‘New
Hardware Found’’ appears, followed immediately by a dialog box named ‘‘Insert
Disk.’’ At this point, click on ‘‘OK’’ in the ‘‘Insert Disk’’ dialog box and a second ‘‘New
Hardware Found’’ dialog box will appear. It will ask you to insert the Windows 95
disk or CD. If you do this, it will automatically load the non-SCAM capable file.
Since your SCSI controller does not support SCAM, this is appropriate. After inserting
the disk or CD, select ‘‘Browse’’ in the dialog box and then select the appropriate drive
letter. The Windows 95 configuration process should select the correct file off the
floppy disk and copy it to the correct Windows 95 subdirectory on your hard drive.
It is possible that Windows 95 will not have the required support for your SCSI
controller. If that is the case, you will need to call the controller manufacturer’s
technical support department. If you still have problems, call Plextor’s Technical
Support Department at 800-886-3935.
Reboot Your Computer
Reboot your machine by selecting ‘‘SHUT DOWN’’ from the ‘‘START’’ Button. In the
shut down dialog box select ‘‘Restart the computer’’ and select ‘‘YES.’’ This will reboot
your computer with the new configuration.
Appendix ---- Windows 95 Drivers
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