CREATIVE 4X CD-ROM Drives GCD-R542B User Manual

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Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-2

mechanism created by Microsoft to read large files, and it gives
your PC the capability to communicate with your CD-ROM
drive.

The presence of these two drivers are reflected by the following
statements in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files after you
run the installation program.

CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\path\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:1E8,11 /V

AUTOEXEC.BAT:

C:\path\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /M:8 /V

To help you to edit these parameters correctly, the following sections
list the syntax for the SBIDE.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE statements. It
also explains the different parameters you can set in each driver.

This section assumes that you know DOS. You should at least
be comfortable in changing statements in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. If you do not know
DOS, please ask someone who does to help you.

SBIDE.SYS Settings

SBIDE.SYS supports Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary
ports. These ports are industrial conventions for the combination of
I/O addresses and IRQ line used by an IDE interface.

The syntax of the SBIDE.SYS statement in CONFIG.SYS is:

DEVICE=C:\path\SBIDE.SYS /D:device /P:addr,irq /V

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