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- [ 8. REMOTE (RS-232) Disk]
- EMBEDDED BIOS REMOTE DISK
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- Embedded BIOS has a powerful REMOTE DISK that enables the target's BIOS
- to treat drives on a host PC as though they were in fact local to the
- target. This lets you share disks across a digital RS-232 link between
- your development machine and the target, eliminating the need to re-blow
- PROMs during development and testing of your application code.
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- On the SERVER side (your development machine), just install a device
- driver in CONFIG.SYS that offers to share your drive over the com-
- munications link. For example, the following CONFIG.SYS line installs
- the disk server, connecting the target through COM1, sharing the host's
- drives:
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- DEVICE=REMSVR.SYS COM1
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- On the remote side, simply enabling the OPTION_REMOTE_DISK option in
- your OPTIONS.INC options build file will automatically build the code
- to communicate with your host's REMSVR.SYS. If for some reason the
- host shuts down, the remote continues to boot from the ROM disk.
-