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- DELAYS IN BOOTING WITH THE HITACHI CD-ROM DOS DRIVER, "HIT-IDE.SYS"
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- Users may notice a long delay in booting with our DOS driver. The
- reason for this is that the default for our DOS driver is to look for
- all CD-ROM drives that are attached to every possible place in the
- system.
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- Because ATAPI drives can be connected to Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
- or Quaternary ports and can be connected as Master or Slave on any of
- those, the driver searches 8 places to find up to 8 CD-ROM drives.
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- By default, even after the first CD-ROM drive is found, the driver
- will continue searching to see if there is more than one drive
- connected. If there is only 1 CD-ROM drive in the system, much of
- the boot up time delay can be reduced by putting /N:1 on the DEVICE=
- line of the CONFIG.SYS file. The number after the /N: tells the
- driver to stop searching after that number of drives has been found.
- So, if 2 CD-ROM drives are connected, use /N:2 instead of /N:1.
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- The boot up time delay can further be reduced by telling the device
- driver where to begin its search. The default search begins with
- the Primary Master and continues in the order shown below. In
- nearly all systems, the hard drive is connected to Primary Master,
- so starting the search at the Primary Slave would still find any
- drive. If you know that the CD-ROM drive is connected to the
- Secondary port, you can save time by skipping the Primary Master
- and Primary Slave.
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- The /T: parameter controls the starting location as follows:
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- /T:0 Starts with Primary Master
- /T:1 Starts with Primary Slave
- /T:2 Starts with Secondary Master
- /T:3 Starts with Secondary Slave
- /T:4 Starts with Tertiary Master
- /T:5 Starts with Tertiary Slave
- /T:6 Starts with Quaternary Master
- /T:7 Starts with Quaternary Slave
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- The search continues from this starting point until the end of this
- list or until the number of drives as specified in the "n" of the /N:n
- switch have been found.
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- If a user does not know how his drive is connected, he can add the /V
- switch to the DEVICE= line. This will display the locations searched
- and will show "HITACHI CDR-7730", "HITACHI CDR-7830", or "HITACHI CDR-7930
- on the line for the location where the drive is connected.
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- Our Version 1.06a driver has also made improvements to reduce the
- search time for each location as compared with the older 1.03B driver.
- The 1.06a driver can be downloaded from our BBS at (619) 661-0245.
- The file name is HITIDE.EXE (self-extracting) or HITIDE.ZIP.
- This file contains the HIT-IDE.SYS driver, the CDSETUP.EXE installation
- utility and a README.DOC file.
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