In the DOS/Windows environment, you only need to install the drivers for
maximizing disk performance.
DOS DRIVER INSTALLATION
1. Copy the driver file
IDEDRV.SYS
from the Driver diskette to your
hard disk root directory, for example:
COPY A:\IDEDRV.SYS C:\
2. Add the following line to the file
CONFIG.SYS
at the root directory:
DEVICE=C:\IDEDRV.SYS
3. Reboot your system to enable the new DOS driver for the VL-bus
IDE port.
WINDOWS 3.1 DRIVER INSTALLATION
1. Copy the driver file
IDEDRV.386
from the Driver diskette to your
current Windows SYSTEM directory, for example:
COPY A:\IDEDRV.386 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
2. Check the Windows file
SYSTEM.INI
(located under Windows
directory, i.e. c:\windows) and make sure that the following lines exist
in the
[386Enh]
section as shown below:
[386Enh]
32BitDiskAccess=ON
device=*int13
If these statements do not exist, add them into the
[386Enh]
section.
Make sure the
32BitDiskAccess
is set to "
ON
".
3. Add the following command line into the
[386Enh]
section:
device=[drive:] [\path\] IDEDRV.386
where the
[drive:]
and
[\path\]
point to the directory that contains the
file
IDEDRV.386
, for example:
device=c:\windows\system\idedrv.386
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