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Manual Installation
You may also manually install the Portable CD-ROM device driver if the
default setting conflicts with your system. Please follow procedures below to
complete this manual installation.
1. Copy the files EXPCDI.EXE from the Portable CD-ROM device driver disk
to your hard disk.
2. Copy or locate the MSCDEX.EXE in your hard disk. Usually reside at
C:\DOS or C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
3. Add “LASTDRIVE=Z” to the TOP of your CONFIG.SYS file. If you already
have a LASTDRIVE line with a letter other than Z, change it to Z.
4. Add the following lines to the BOTTOM of your CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=drive:\path\EXPCDI.EXE /P:1 /I:15 /D:MSCD001
where
drive:\path
specifies the directory containing the file EXPCDI.EXE.
Note: If your CONFIG.SYS file is already loaded with PCMCIA software, such
as Cardsoft of SystemSoft or Cardtalk of Databook, it is necessary to add the
above line AFTER all the PCMCIA statements.. Otherwise, the PCMCIA
interface card will not be initialized properly. To make sure if any PCMCIA
software has been loaded in your system and to know more about PCMCIA,
please refer to the section titled “PCMCIA Software Information”.
The EXPCDI.EXE is device driver for the PORTABLE CD-ROM. The
parameters of EXPCDI.EXE are described as below:
/P
Set the I/O ports, and the valid numbers are 1, 2, and 3. Each
number represents the I/O port pairs of (170-177, 376-377), (1E8-
1EF, 3EE-3EF), and (168-16F, 36E-36F) respectively. The default
setting is /P:1.
/I
Set the IRQ number. The valid IRQs are 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and
15, and the default setting is /I:15.
/D
is used to set the device name. It can be any name up to 8
characters. This name must be the same as the name you will
specify in the MSCDEX.EXE option /D: name in the next step.
5. Add the following line at the TOP of your AUTOEXEC.BAT:
drive:\path\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /M:4
where drive:\path
specifies the DOS directory or the directory containing
the file MSCDEX.EXE.
Note:
If your AUTOEXEC.BAT file loads a menu program such as
DOSSHELL or Windows, you have to add the above line to start your
menu program. Otherwise, MSCDEX will not have a chance to load
before your menu program begins.
