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- FUTURE DOMAIN CORPORATION
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- SCSI CD-ROM Device Driver
-
-
- I. GENERAL PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
-
- 1) Product description:
-
- The Future Domain SCSI CD-ROM device driver is to be used with
- Future Domain SCSI Host controllers to support one or more CD-ROM
- drives on a DOS-based host system. The device driver can support
- from 1 to 24 CD-ROM drives (via up to 4 SCSI controllers) on the
- PC, PC/XT, PC/AT and Micro Channel Architecture (PS/2) environments.
- Photo-CD is supported on drives as noted in section 3.
-
- 2) Table of supported CD-ROM drives on 8 and 16 bit controllers:
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- DRIVE MAKE DRIVE MODEL NUMBERS
- ------------ ----------------------------------
- CHINON CDX-435 CDS-435, CDC-435, CDS-535
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- GOLDSTAR GCD-R300B
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- HITACHI CDR-1750S, CDR-3650, CDR-3750
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- IBM CDROM I, CDROM II, CDROM III
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- LMSI CM-214, CM-215
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- NEC CDR-25, CDR-38, CDR-55JD, CDR-72,
- CDR-73, CDR-74, CDR-83, CDR-84,
- CDR-74-1, CDR-84-1
- (M-series are also supported)
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- PANASONIC CR-301, CR-501, CR-532, CR-533
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- PHILIPS CM-405, CM-425
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- PIONEER DRM-600
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- SONY CDU-541, CDU-561, CDU-6110, CDU-6111,
- CDU-6211,CDU-7211
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- TEAC CD-50
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- TEXEL DM-3024, DM-5024, DM-3028, DM-5028
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- TOSHIBA XME-3201B, XME-3301TA, XME-3401B
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-
- This CD-ROM driver will support any SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive that
- conforms to the SONY-561 specifications.
-
- 3) Table of Drives supporting Photo-CD:
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- DRIVE VENDOR MODEL NUMBERS SINGLE/MULTI-SESSION
- ------------ ------------- --------------------
- CHINON CDS-535 Single/Multi-session
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- GOLDSTAR GCD-R300B Single/Multi-session
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- IBM CDROM III Single/Multi-session
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- LMSI CM-215 Single/Multi-session
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- NEC CDR-25 Single-session
- CDR-84 Single-session
- CDR-38 Single/Multi-session
- CDR-55JD Single/Multi-session
- CDR-74-1/84-1 Single/Multi-session
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- PANASONIC CR-532 Single-session
- CR-533 Single/Multi-session
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- PHILIPS CM-405/425 Single/Multi-session
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- SONY CDU-541 Single-session
- CDU-561 Single/Multi-session
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- TEAC CD-50 Single/Multi-session
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- TEXEL DM-3024/5024 Single/Multi-session
- DM-3028/5028 Single/Multi-session
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- TOSHIBA XME-3301TA Single/Multi-session
- XME-3401B Single/Multi-session
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- II. 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 - 6.0x.
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- - CD-ROM Extensions
-
- - A Hard Disk Drive. (Optional)
- (Not necessary for device driver or host controller but
- may be necessary for some CD-ROM application programs.)
-
-
- III. INSTALL/TECH TIPS (READ BEFORE INSTALLATION):
-
- 1) IMPORTANT - If the CD-ROM device(s) is attached to a Future Domain
- SCSI controller which contains a BIOS Version 3.00 or 8.00, you must
- take one of the following actions:
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- a) Upgrade the BIOS.
- b) Load the DOS CAM loadable driver. (DCAM950.EXE or DCAM18XX.EXE)
- 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 3.00 or 8.00 BIOS.
-
- 2) Command line parameter '/I' (controls Disk Change status)
- If this switch is not specified, the driver will not return an
- "Invalid Disc Change" error if the SAME disc is reinserted into
- the drive. This may cause a problem if two different disc's
- having the same volume size are being used.
-
- If you are experiencing this problem, specifying the /I switch
- will force the driver to always return an "Invalid Disc Change"
- error anytime a disc is changed. (SAME or DIFFERENT disc)
-
- usage: DEVICE=C:\DEV\FDCD.SYS /D:MSCD000 /I
-
- 3) LASTDRIVE = Z in the CONFIG.SYS file.
- The install program will default to using drive letter 'Z'.
- This drive letter should be changed so that DOS does not reserve
- more drive letters than are necessary.
-
- 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.
-
- 4) 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.
-
- 5) For compatibility with the Future Domain FDDEVICE.SYS device
- driver, load the FDDEVICE.SYS driver before loading FDCD.SYS
- in the CONFIG.SYS file.
-
- 6) The /F driver paramater can be used to force the scanning of the
- SCSI devices in ascending order. The default is descending
- order, i.e., from ID 6 to 0.
-
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- IV. 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
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- National Geographic Society:
- - Mammals: A Multimedia Encyclopedia
- - The Presidents
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- Sierra Online:
- - Mother Goose
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- Software Toolworks:
- - CD Game Pack
- - Illustrated Encyclopedia
- - US Atals
- - 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.
-
-
- V. LIMITATIONS:
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- 1) The following drives do not support Audio Channel Manipulation:
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- - Sony CDU-6110 (does not support audio)
-
- - Sony CDU-6111 (supports stereo mode only)
-
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- VI. CUSTOMER SUPPORT:
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- To contact our Customer Support Department please call :
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- Future Domain Corporation
- 2801 McGaw Ave.
- Irvine, Ca. 92714
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- Telephone #: (714) 253-0440
- Fax #: (714) 253-0429
-
- Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm PST.
-