CDR-1500 (250-1081)           Command Lines            Faxback Doc. # 5377

Configuring the CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICE={driver.sys} /D:{device_name} /N:{number} /P:{address}

/D:{device_name} - Tells MSCDEX.EXE where to find the device driver.

/N:{number} - Specifies the number of CD-ROM drives connected to the system
              through the interface card.

/P:{address} - Specifies the I/O address of the CD-ROM interface card.  This
               parameter is required only if you change the I/O address of
               the interface card to anything other than the default address
               of 300 (hex).  If you choose a value other than 300 for this
               switch, you must properly configure the new address on the in-
               terface card.  Refer to the manual which came with your inter-
               face card.

Configuring the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

MSCDEX.EXE /D:{device_name} /M:{value} /L:{drive_letter} {/E/K/S/V}

/D:{device_name} - Tell MSCDEX.EXE where to find the device driver.  This
                   name must be unique and identical to the name of the
                   driver specified using /D: switch in the CONFIG.SYS file.

/M:{value} - Tells MSCDEX.EXE how much memory to allocate as sector buffers
             for caching information on the CD-ROM.  The SETUP program uses
             a default value of 8 to reserve 16KB for sector caching (1 sec-
             tor=2KB).

/L:{drive_letter} - Tells MSCDEX.EXE to assign drive letter as the logical
                    device name to the CD-ROM drive.  If no /L: parameter is
                    supplied, MSCDEX will assign the next available drive
                    letter.

/E - Tells MSCDEX.EXE to use expanded memory if your system has expanded
      memory.

/K - Tells MSCDEX.EXE to use any KANJI (Japanese) file structures, if pre-
     sent, rather than the default of standard alphanumeric file structures.

/S - Instructs MSCDEX.EXE to patch DOS to allow sharing of CD-ROM drives on
     MS-NET based network servers.

/V - Provides memory usage statistics, such as how much memory is used by
     buffers, resident data, resident code.

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