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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.