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DELAYS IN BOOTING WITH THE HITACHI CD-ROM DOS DRIVER, "HIT-IDE.SYS"
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.
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.
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.
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.
The /T: parameter controls the starting location as follows:
/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
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.
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.
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.