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ABOUT FUTURE DOMAIN SCSI CD-ROM DEVICE DRIVER
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GENERAL PRODUCT OVERVIEW
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1) Product Description
The Future Domain SCSI CD-ROM device driver is to be used with
Future Domain SCSI controllers to support one or more CD-ROM
drives on either a DOS or Windows Operating Systems. The device
driver can support from 1 to 24 CD-ROM drives.
2) List of Supported SCSI CD-ROM Drives
Please refer to Future Domain Compatible SCSI Embedded
Peripherals List.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- PC/AT or MCA computer system with at least 2 MB memory to
run Windows 3.1
- MS or PC DOS Version 3.x or later
- CD-ROM Extensions
- A Hard Disk Drive (Optional)
(Not necessary for device driver or SCSI controller but
may be necessary for some CD-ROM application programs.)
INSTALL/TECH TIPS (READ BEFORE INSTALLATION)
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1) IMPORTANT - If the CD-ROM device(s) is attached to a Future Domain
SCSI controller which contains a BIOS Version 3.00 or prior for
16-bit controllers or version 8.00 or prior for 8-bit controllers,
you must take one of the following actions:
a) Upgrade the BIOS.
b) Load the appropriate DOS CAM loadable driver.
c) Use the '/T' command line parameter to force the CD-ROM device
driver to talk directly to the SCSI controller.
usage: DEVICE=C:\DEV\FDCD.SYS /D:MSCD000 /T
NOTE: The '/T' parameter must only be used with SCSI controllers
that contain the BIOS versions 3.00 or 8.00 or prior.
2) LASTDRIVE = Z
If you are getting invalid drive letters for your CD-ROM
drives add the above line to your CONFIG.SYS file. To avoid
having DOS reserving more drive letters than you need, change the
letter Z to the last drive letter that your system needs.
For example if you have one fixed drive with two partitions using
drive letter C & D and one CD-ROM drive using drive letter E,
set LASTDRIVE to E (LASTDRIVE = E). This is very important for
Network users so that drive letters will be available to access
Network drives as in a Novell environment.
3) You can remove the BIOS chip on the Future Domain SCSI controller
if there are no fixed drives attached. This will allow the system
to boot-up much more quickly since the SCSI bus will not be scanned
by the BIOS upon boot-up.
4) For compatibility with the Future Domain Fixed Disk Device
Driver (FDBIOS.SYS or FDDEVICE.SYS), load the disk device driver
before loading FDCD.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS file.
SUMMARY OF COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
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DEVICE = FDCD.SYS /D:NAME [/F/R/T/Z/M/L/P]
where:
NAME is a 1 to 8 character device name
/F is to scan the drives in ascending SCSI ID
numbers
/R is to force a SCSI Bus Reset to occur before
driver initialization
/T is to force the use of the proprietary OEM
Tool Kit even if Future/CAM is available
/Z is to display the device driver size
/M is to mute the display on the screen
/L is to reserve one CD-ROM drive for
PCMCIA hot-plug support
/P is to reserve multiple CD-ROM drives for
PCMCIA hot-plug support
Note: /L and /P are mutually excluded.
TESTED SOFTWARE SUPPORT
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Microsoft:
- TESTDRV.EXE (CD-ROM device driver test program)
- CDSPEED.EXE (CD-ROM Data Streaming Transfer Rate Test)
- Windows 3.0 with Multimedia extensions V1.0
- Windows 3.1
- BookShelf
- Programmer's Library
- Musicbox with a variety of audio discs
- Multimedia Beethoven
National Geographic Society:
- Mammals: A Multimedia Encyclopedia
- The Presidents
Sierra Online:
- Mother Goose
Software Toolworks:
- CD Game Pack
- Illustrated Encyclopedia
- US Atlas
- World Atlas
NOTE: The CD-ROM device driver will work under Windows 3.0/3.1 in REAL,
STANDARD and ENHANCED mode. Depending on the application being
used, you may be limited to using REAL mode. Contact the
manufacture of the application for compatibility under Windows.
LIMITATIONS
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1) The following drives do not support Audio Channel Manipulation:
- Sony CDU-6110 (does not support audio)
- Sony CDU-6111 (supports stereo mode only)
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
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To contact our Customer Support Department please call :
Future Domain Corporation
2801 McGaw Ave.
Irvine, Ca. 92714
Phone #: (714) 253-0440
Fax #: (714) 253-0429
Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm PST.