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Date:	Mon, 24 Dec 2001 20:17:18 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DOS install

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> Hard drive? It should not need a driver, unless
> it's SCSI or the BIOS can't support the drive size.

.. or it's a Compaq with a plug-in IDE controller. The Compaq here
needs a driver for the controller card. (The Secondary port isn't
available unless you use the driver.)

> Here's one of my setups:
>
> device=c:\dc390\aspiuwf.sys /d:aspicd0
>
> c:\ezscsi\mscdex /d:aspicd0 /m:10

Sheridan - the /d parameter is how mscdex finds the driver, the /d value
in the two lines should be identical otherwise it won't work. The /m is
the number of buffers, Steve must be rich he's using 10 sector buffers
(each buffer is 2KB). My notes say they strongly recommend using /e if
you use /m. I don't know what the /m default is but it's apparently
something less than 4.

If you have more than one CD use only one mscdex line but multiple /d
entries (one for each driver).

- Peter

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